Cover image for The book of denial
Title:
The book of denial
Author:
Chávez Castañeda, Ricardo, 1961- author.
ISBN:
9781592703623
Uniform Title:
Libro de la negación. English
Edition:
First English-language edition.
Physical Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm
General Note:
"Original Spanish-language edition copyright ©2014 by Ediciones El Naranjo, S.A. de C.V., Mexico. Text copyright ©2014 by Ricardo Chávez Castañeda; illustrations copyright ©2014 by Alejandro Magallanes; English-language translation copyright ©2024 by Lawrence Schimel."--Title page verso.
Abstract:
"There are stories so terrible that we tremble to hear even a whisper of them. Even more terrible, some of them are true.This is one such story, a story of our deepest inhumanity--one that confronts the history of violence against children, and through its young narrator attempts to find a way out. A horror story and ghost story told as much through art as through text, The Book of Denial is an antidote to our collective silence. By uplifting storytelling as a means of understanding the past and shaping the future, it is also--improbably--a beacon of hope. Written by genre-defying Mexican author Ricardo Chávez Castañeda, The Book of Denial is a dark and powerful story within a story, illustrated with a striking graphic sensibility by Alejandro Magallanes and translated by Lawrence Schimel.This is the third book to appear under Unruly, an imprint of picture books for older readers, and will include a short note to readers about how it continues to build this experimental framework of visually complex, sophisticated picture books for teens and adults."--Amazon