{"title":"Manoela Sawitzki","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"suite-dama-da-noite","title":"Lady of the Night Suite","description":"At ten years old, Julia Capovilla voraciously practiced fictional love, cultivating a vast cast of imaginary lovers. She waited for them, her hair done, dressed in every combination of clothes she could find, including her own and those left by her mother. Her lips, smeared with pink, smelled of raspberries, and her face burned with the rush, the fright, the audacity of leaving the house saying she was going to the store to buy brown sugar, meringue, or stickers, and heading for the station. Afterwards, she wandered with her invisible companions through empty alleys and vacant lots, careful not to be noticed—she found no fun in playing at love affairs that weren't clandestine. Writer, journalist, and playwright Manoela Sawitzki, from Rio Grande do Sul, won over audiences and critics with her acclaimed book \"Nuvens de Magalhães\" (Magellan Clouds)—published in 2002, when she was 24—and her play \"Calamidade,\" which spawned an award-winning production in Porto Alegre. In her second novel, \"SUíTE DAMA DA NOITE\" (Lady of the Night Suite), the author offers readers a glimpse into love doomed to eternal waiting from a woman's perspective. The protagonist is Júlia Capovilla, who has led her life toward the decisive moment when she will meet Leon again, with whom she fell in love as a girl. When fate finally reunites them, she discovers he is about to marry another woman and realizes that the only way to keep him in her life is to become his lover. From then on, the only moments of joy in Júlia's existence occur in bed, every twilight, in the \"Lady of the Night Suite.\" The book arose from a desire to better understand the waiting of love, according to the author. \"There's a lot of talk about love, how it begins and ends, but what precedes it, the wait, the gap between desire and fulfillment can be brutal.\" Inspired by romantic and tragic heroines like Madame Bovary, Juliet, and Ophelia, Manoela created a character driven by passion, but who manages to... Trapped in the bonds of an absent mother, a sick father, a caring aunt, and an omnipresent but inaccessible lover, Júlia is a personification of waiting, of the feeling of incompleteness. A story that blends confession and experience, whirlwind and salvation. In the words of Angolan writer Ondjaki, who wrote the book's blurb: \"Manoela Sawitzki thus inscribes, in contemporary Brazilian literature, a powerful portrait of human desires, relationships, and contradictions, starting from the eye of a hidden hurricane called Júlia Capovilla.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174703218940,"sku":"9788501084941","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/f37438dddbe4b7a65db0757887cac283_f723a7d7-a2ca-408f-849b-33c17b1b42d6.jpg?v=1778318538"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/manoela-sawitzki.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}