{"product_id":"passaros-de-voo-curto","title":"Short-flight birds","description":"Alcione Araújo returns to the field of novels after ten years with the release of Short-Flight Birds. The time between the release of her last novel, \"Not Even the Whole Ocean,\" a Jabuti Prize finalist, and this new one was practically all spent writing Short-Flight Birds, a book that Luis Fernando Verissimo, on the back cover, calls a \"romanção.\" The augmentative, in this case, is relevant for its size—462 pages—and for the courage to embrace a novel with a dozen characters, dozens of stories, and nearly a century: \"In this case, I had an English engineer who arrived in Brazil at the end of the 19th century, and a Brazilian opera singer from the second half of the 20th century. Between them, a century and the possibility of a novel.\" Short-Flight Birds doesn't tell one story, but several. It tells the story of an English miner who arrives in Brazil in the late 19th century, an American pianist who comes to play in casinos, an opera singer who tours the country performing from town to town, a handyman nicknamed Zé Bolero, and an aviator who fights in World War II. According to Alcione, it was the characters, not a pre-established plot, that guided him in this century-long saga through the Brazilian countryside and its history: \"Another thing, I don't usually start with the plot. First, the characters emerge, who grow, show themselves off, and seduce me. If I surrender to their charms, whims, and contradictions, they possess me.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175038861564,"sku":"9788501082107","price":79.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/2b60af707d65be299658ce71e82676a4.jpg?v=1778311476","url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/products\/passaros-de-voo-curto","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}