{"product_id":"the-city-of-vapor-a-novel-of-love-and-longing-in-1925-brazil-9798197283955","title":"The City of Vapor: A Novel of Love and Longing in 1925 Brazil","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Flávio Peres\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1925, the Brazilian mountain resort town of Po�os de Caldas lives beneath mist, music, and thermal vapor. Politicians, gamblers, invalids, aristocrats, musicians, and restless souls arrive seeking cure, distraction, or reinvention among its elegant hotels, mineral springs, and casino nights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoctor �lvaro arrives from Campinas carrying exhaustion disguised as neurasthenia, a respectable marriage already hollowed by silence, and the quiet suspicion that something essential inside him has gone numb. He expects rest. Instead, he encounters Camille - a French singer at the Boate Azul whose sophistication conceals loneliness, fear, and a dangerous capacity for hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs their relationship deepens amid cold mornings at the Thermas, walks through fog-covered parks, football matches, caf�s, music, and the melancholic beauty of Po�os, both begin to confront the same terrifying question: how much of a life can remain unlived before the soul quietly disappears inside it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Po�os de Caldas is a city that reveals more than it heals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd some passions do not merely transform people - they force them to glimpse the lives they might have lived if they had possessed enough courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAtmospheric, sensual, and deeply melancholic, \u003ci\u003ePo�os de Caldas\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary novel about love, longing, emotional exile, and the devastating distance between the lives we build and the lives we secretly desire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969249362071,"sku":"9798197283955","price":1201.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197283955.webp?v=1782921032","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-city-of-vapor-a-novel-of-love-and-longing-in-1925-brazil-9798197283955","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}