{"product_id":"pequena-europa","title":"Little Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEurope, with its endless religious and nationalist wars, its massacres, its fierce individualism and its struggle for freedom, cut through by every kind of violence and contradiction: the Inquisition, Empires, colonialism, racism, anti-Semitism—revolutionary Europe of the 18th and 19th centuries, of Robespierre, Freud, Wagner and Marx, of communism, anti-communism, fascism and secular republics, of democratic monarchies—is, even now, in the age of globalisation, our unconscious and our carnal relationship with the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(...) a space of exuberance, equivalent to any space or medium an artist defines (the diagram), in which to read oneself and the world. (Mafalda Ivo Cruz)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"550\"\u003eA subtle meditation on what remains of a continent that no longer knows who it is. The book traverses cities, memories and ruins, composing an intimate geography of Europe beyond treaties or borders. A geography of gestures, voices, silences, guilt, beauty and melancholy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"552\" data-end=\"1061\"\u003eThe text moves between narrative and essay. The voice that narrates is at once personal and collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"552\" data-end=\"1061\" style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e“Nothing is ever truly lost, it only changes its language\u003cstrong data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"895\"\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1063\" data-end=\"1519\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1063\" data-end=\"1083\"\u003eMafalda Ivo Cruz\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Portuguese writer, translator and essayist. Her work is distinguished by its search for an emotional truth. In \u003cem data-start=\"1305\" data-end=\"1321\"\u003ePequena Europa\u003c\/em\u003e, she confirms herself as one of the most elegant and intense voices in contemporary Portuguese literature. She is the author of Um Requiem Português (1995), A Casa do Diabo (2000), O Rapaz de Botticelli (2002, Pen Club Fiction Prize), Vermelho (2003, APE Grand Prize for Fiction in 2004), Emma (2004) and Oz (2006).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariposa Azul","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52096516391178,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/capa-pequena-europa-para-fb.jpg?v=1762778906","url":"https:\/\/www.malditalivraria.com\/en\/products\/pequena-europa","provider":"Maldita Livraria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}