Silent Book by Simone Matias

Abacatte Publishing house 2025

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The back-cover text is by Roger Mello, the winner of the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2014, in the Illustration category:

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"Azul de Lá is a poetic challenge that goes beyond the eyes. The eye will need to fly with both desire and fear. Simone Matias knows how to weave narratives out of the substance of wind. There is much impulse in these invisible words. There is a silence that screams through the metal bars of the cage. Everything in Azul de Lá is a surprise, and yet we are the bird, we are the cage, we are the sky. The life contained within these limits is made of choices that are not expected. Above all, they will be the choices of the reader. Or will they not be choices? Simone Matias’s work had already amazed us with so much philosophy of the image, so much strength. And now, this immense, this unsettling blue"