{"product_id":"the-city-of-vapor-flzavio-peres-9798197283955","title":"The City of Vapor: A Novel of Love and Longing in 1925 Brazil","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1925, the Brazilian mountain resort town of Poços 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 Álvaro 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, cafés, music, and the melancholic beauty of Poços, 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 Poços 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\u003ePoços 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Flávio Peres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798197283955\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.58lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Flávio Peres","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48801541849343,"sku":"9798197283955","price":13.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-city-of-vapor-flzavio-peres-9798197283955","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}