From award-winning Mexican author Ricardo Ch?vez Casta?eda and the visionary Mexican designer Alejandro Magallanes comes a horror story and ghost story that is both daringly and beautifully told in word and image.
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far)
A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Book of 2024
Selected for the USBBY Outstanding International Book List, 2025
Selected for the 2025 Locus Magazine Crawford Award Honour List
A 2025 Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Translated Young Adult Book Prize Honor Book
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 Ch?vez Casta?eda, The Book of Denial is a dark and powerful story within a story, illustrated with a striking graphic sensibility by Alejandro Magallanes and translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel.
This is the third book to appear under Unruly, an imprint of picture books for older readers, and includes a short note to readers about how it continues to build this experimental framework of visually complex, sophisticated picture books for teens and adults.
Author: Ricardo Chávez Castañeda
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Unruly/Enchanted Lion
Published: 01/30/2024
Pages: 148
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.53h x 7.09w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781592703623
Language: English
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