The book of denial
(Book)

The uncommon and exceptional design of this book and its richly expressive illustrations combine with an elegantly phrased text and poignant narration to tell a horrific yet moving story that returns us to a lost history and reminds us that the worst terror of the human being is ourselves. A boy (no more than nine) discovers that his father is writing a history of infanticide. Curiosity compels the boy, and so the sea in which he begins to swim is that of his father's sloping handwriting. Every night, the boy goes through a fragment of those pages--pages that make him feel suffocated and unable to sleep--while every day he asks himself if children should know this horror story. But the boy's most pressing concern is something else: that history is catching-up with him and the other children, as his father's book progresses through the ages. Will the story reach the present day and find him?