{"title":"Maria Isaac Collection","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"onde-cantam-os-grilos","title":"Where the Crickets Sing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a baby, Formiga was left in a basket on the steps of the house at Herdade do Lago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mystery of his arrival is just one more in the long history of the estate and the many generations of the Vaz family, haunted by legends and curses: an inexhaustible source of fascinating mysteries for the daydreaming boy's imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDazzled by the life of the family he clumsily idolizes, Formiga runs and climbs trees, shrinks himself, makes himself invisible, and invents all sorts of things to eavesdrop on conversations and discover yet another secret.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the last secret he discovers proves too big for the well-intentioned curiosity of a child, and a mistake of his own ends up destroying the only world he knows and bringing his childhood to an end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore than twenty years later, Formiga returns to Herdade do Lago and writes to an invisible reader, remembering everything that was and everything that should never have been. A sweet story told in the voice of an adult speaking for the child he once was.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maria Isaac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41359425667247,"sku":"IP013CE009","price":19.45,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/5701\/3299\/files\/9789898886026.jpg?v=1694227930"},{"product_id":"o-que-dizer-das-flores","title":"What to Say About Flowers","description":"\u003cp\u003eWelcome to Mont-o-Ver!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePortuguese who set out for the mountains in winter, or the beach in summer, are bound to pass through this flat expanse of sugarcane fields; more likely still, they won't even notice it. The old railway line runs alongside it, and trains don't even slow down here anymore. In such an endless stretch of sameness, it is an easy landscape to get lost in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo allow me to introduce the illustrious inhabitants of the village.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFather Elias Froes, a saintly man who habitually spends his time thinking about the world, and rarely about himself. He keeps secrets that no one else knows.\u003cbr\u003eCatalina Barbosa, an adventurer and rebel. A well-behaved girl only on Sundays, when her grandmother muzzles her in a pretty dress for Mass.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRosa Duque, a woman who once had everything it took to be happy. She was defeated by a broken heart and rescued by a flower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZé Mau, the terror of the children's lives. The Mondego brothers, the villains in the adults' stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis little village may be small and still, but it is full of clumsy people with a great deal of life to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover with me what really happened on the night of the great fire a decade ago, and who the true heroes are in our picturesque story, seasoned with the usual misunderstandings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to Mont-o-Ver!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maria Isaac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41359407743151,"sku":"IP120CE112","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/5701\/3299\/products\/9789899039438.jpg?v=1793911639"},{"product_id":"o-sono-delas","title":"Their Sleep","description":"\u003cp\u003eFar from fairy tales, women can snore, suffer from insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, or other sleep disorders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheir Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e brings together five voices from contemporary literature who, inspired by real clinical cases, give voice to an anthology of previously unpublished short stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween the insecurity of a first love and the pain of grief, the weight of aging and the doubts of adolescence, dissatisfaction in marriage and the exhaustion caused by the demands of motherhood, this is a book that sensitively and beautifully addresses the importance of women's sleep under the weight of social expectations that continue to make sleep disorders a female taboo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Filipa Fonseca Silva, Helena Magalhães, Iris Bravo, Maria Isaac, Susana Amaro Velho","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49573254857033,"sku":"IP340CE236","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/5701\/3299\/files\/9789895770717.jpg?v=1709226209"},{"product_id":"onde-cantam-os-grilos-edicao-especial","title":"Where the Crickets Sing — Special Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a baby, Formiga was left on the steps of Herdade do Lago. The mystery of his arrival is just one more in the long history of the estate and the many generations of the Vaz family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaised among legends, secrets, and curses that pass through time in the people's memory, he grows up enthralled by that family, which never becomes his own, and whom he reveres in a clumsy way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormiga runs, climbs trees, listens in secret, searches for secrets, and invents just about anything to try to understand what he doesn't comprehend. Until one day, he discovers a secret that proves too big for the well-intentioned curiosity of a scatterbrained child, and a mistake of his own destroys the only world he knows, putting an end to his childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty years later, Formiga writes. To remember. To confess. To try to forgive himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maria Isaac","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52300354486601,"sku":"IP492CE325","price":19.45,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/5701\/3299\/files\/9789895774418.jpg?v=1747050147"}],"url":"https:\/\/particular.pt\/en\/collections\/colecao-maria-isaac.oembed","provider":"Grupo Infinito Particular","version":"1.0","type":"link"}