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No tinc paraules received the White
Raven prize for 2000, given by the
Munich Internationale Jugend Bibliothek;
it was also rated Best Children's
Book by the Caracas Banco del Libro and the Montreuil Salon
du Livre de Jeunesse.
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NO TINC PARAULES
(I HAVE NO WORDS)
Arnal
Ballester
ISBN: 84-930221-0-1
120 pp.
PVP: 15'03 euros
Just like the title says, "I Have No Words" has no words;
it tells a story readers will have to discover through some fifty red
and black images printed only on the odd-numbered pages. Arnal Ballester
uses his knowledge of visual grammar and all the means available to
his excellent draughtsmanship to surprise and entertain us, littering
the way with dubious certainties and apparent falsity.
Even without words, this is a book one should read with one's eyes wide
open. We should do what the epilogue's author, Dolores Fuzilli, suggests
one should do when going out for a walk: that we should simply "observe
every detail closely, while carefully scanning beyond the windows' edges,
where surely the most interesting things are to be found".
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