{"product_id":"o-amor-acontece-um-romance-em-veneza","title":"Love Happens: A Romance in Venice","description":"After establishing herself as an exceptional short story writer with Borges's Secretary (SESC Literature Prize 2005) and Shadow Line (2008), as well as short stories that won awards in competitions, Rio de Janeiro native Lúcia Bettencourt debuts in the romance genre. \"Love Happens,\" a sort of making-of account of the writing of a love story set in Venice, combines lively and entertaining dialogue with literary references and romantic drama to explore love today. \"This is what romantic love is: being able to embark on a thousand adventures to penetrate the unknown world of the other and find the prize in the adventure itself,\" the author defines. Lúcia has defined herself as a writer who discovers her stories through reading, walking, and traveling without much method. It's no coincidence that a journey, albeit imaginary—but with method and calculated risk—is the reason for this book, which begins with an editorial proposal, in keeping with a certain trend in contemporary Brazilian literature: that of guiding authors to set their stories in foreign settings. Mariana is a young writer who believes she's incapable of falling in love. She wins a one-month scholarship to write a romance novel set in Venice, Italy, which may even be filmed later—but she struggles to let her characters meet and experience true passion. Fábio, a university professor and the person responsible for Mariana's recommendation, follows his friend's creative process, speaking to her daily on the phone. Little by little, Fábio shows Mariana that love still exists and can even happen between the pages of a book. Through the ingenious dialogues between the couple, interspersed with the appearance of Paula and Francesco, who will become the protagonists of the romance, we follow the collaborative creative process that weaves the book's writing. With her characteristic direct language, always searching for the right word, the author reveals the behind-the-scenes of a production whose challenge is to overcome the déjà vu of the theme and the set design. For her, however, it is “a fun little story, which mixes melodrama with some very uninhibited conversations”.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159473144060,"sku":"9788501098559","price":39.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/70c192fe2b965f90ac02dc7b4a4d1063_660969c8-d04b-419d-871e-694123fc7360.jpg?v=1778323164","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/o-amor-acontece-um-romance-em-veneza","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}