Capital

(Hardback)

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Award-winning Portuguese artist Afonso Cruz brings us this satirical, wordless, cautionary tale about the power of capital. A boy is given a piggy bank, and grows up feeding it coins as it sits on his bedside table. The piggy bank begins to grow as the boy becomes a man, filled with amazing profits. However, as the years go by, its greediness becomes harder to control, until soon it's become an out-of-proportion, unstoppable menace.

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Praise for the Portuguese edition of Capital:

Winner of the 2014 Portugal National Award for Illustration!

"This Capital is not a version of the other, although convenes it with intelligence...it does this in both assumed and non-linear fashion, combining the invocation with a dose of sarcasm and humor that the illustration work explores with unerring hand...[This] makes Capital an iconoclast choice [in the collection]."
Sara Figueiredo Costa, cultural journalist and literary critic

"Afonso Cruz...is a complete and complex author, from whom we are never really sure what to expect."
Carla Maia de Almeida, journalsit, translator and award-winning author

Author Bio

Afonso Cruz is an award-winning Portuguese author and illustrator. Born in Figueira da Foz, Portugal, he has visited over sixty countries. He has studied at the Antnio Arroio Art School, the Lisbon Faculty of Visual Arts and the Institute for Visual Arts of Madeira. He is the author of a dozen books, which have garnered him the Camilo Castelo Branco Grand Prize, the European Union Prize for Literature, and the Portuguese Society for Authors Award in the Literature category. The Portuguese edition of Capital (Pato Lgico, 2014) was awarded the 2014 Portuguese National Award for Illustration, and his recent picture book The Human Contradiction (Caminho, 2010) was selected for the IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Honor List and was a 2011 Portuguese National Award for Illustration honor book. Afonso also has a monthly column, "Parallax", in the arts newspaper Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias, and is an animated film director and member of the band The Soaked Lamb.