The Arrival
by: Shaun Tan
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"A shockingly imaginative graphic novel that captures the sense of adventure and wonder that surrounds a new arrival on the shores of a shining new city. Wordless, but with perfect narrative flow, Tan gives us a story filled with cityscapes worthy of Winsor McCay." -- Jeff Smith, author of Bone
"A magical river of strangers and their stories!" -- Craig Thompson, author of Blankets
"Magnificent." -- David Small, Caldecott Medalist
In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to cross the ocean. He's embarking on the most painful yet important journey of his life - he's leaving home to build a better future for his family. Shaun Tan evokes universal aspects of an immigrant's experience through a singular work of the imagination. He does so using brilliantly clear and mesmerizing images. Because the main character can't communicate in words, the book forgoes them too. But while the reader experiences the main character's isolation, he also shares his ultimate joy.
"A shockingly imaginative graphic novel that captures the sense of adventure and wonder that surrounds a new arrival on the shores of a shining new city. Wordless, but with perfect narrative flow, Tan gives us a story filled with cityscapes worthy of Winsor McCay." -- Jeff Smith, author of Bone
"A magical river of strangers and their stories!" -- Craig Thompson, author of Blankets
"Magnificent." -- David Small, Caldecott Medalist
In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to cross the ocean. He's embarking on the most painful yet important journey of his life - he's leaving home to build a better future for his family. Shaun Tan evokes universal aspects of an immigrant's experience through a singular work of the imagination. He does so using brilliantly clear and mesmerizing images. Because the main character can't communicate in words, the book forgoes them too. But while the reader experiences the main character's isolation, he also shares his ultimate joy.
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Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Beautifully rendered
I was so intrigued with Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia that I had to get this book. It is different from Suburbia in that no words are used to tell this intriguing and mysterious tale. It is one long story with one image per page to upward of twenty images. Tan artfully uses the graphic novel form to guide the viewer through a monochromatic world that is often surrealistic and absurd, yet never threatening or overbearing.
Suitable for both children and adults, and all will be enthralled ... Read More
Rating: - Simply Wonderful!
I was not sure what this book was when I decided to order it.It has quickly become one of my very favorite books ever.The pictures are beautifully rendered and the story is an 'every immigrants' story.The thing that sets this aside from the average telling of a story of immigration is that it happens in a world none of us knows.There are very subtle but important differences in landscape and neighborhoods as well as animals, architecture, language, clothing etc that make you realize that though ... Read More
Rating: - The Arrival
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Once, as a boy, I was exploring the recesses of my grandmother's attic.Lifting the lid of an old trunk I discovered a thick envelope full of yellowed papers.The handwriting was ornate and fading; the language indecipherable - a mystery begging to be solved.
That's how I felt reading Shaun Tan's The Arrival.This engrossing book has the feel of old documents or a family album that has been lost for years.Pick it up and you hold in your hand the account of ... Read More
Rating: - Surreal experience
Very few books give me a good chill. I equate Shaun Tan's "The Arrival" with "The First man" by Camus and great works by E.M. Forster and V. Woolf.
Rating: - An amazing insight into arriving in a new land
A beautiful story, and a unique experience as it truly makes you feel as confused and alienated as the man must have felt arriving, and trying to get by, in this strange new land. The character's reactions and experiences seem so realistic given the stark contrast of odd creatures and landscapes. I would recommend this to anyone, immigrant or not.
- Beautifully renderedI was so intrigued with Tan's Tales from Outer Suburbia that I had to get this book. It is different from Suburbia in that no words are used to tell this intriguing and mysterious tale. It is one long story with one image per page to upward of twenty images. Tan artfully uses the graphic novel form to guide the viewer through a monochromatic world that is often surrealistic and absurd, yet never threatening or overbearing.
Suitable for both children and adults, and all will be enthralled ... Read More
- Simply Wonderful!I was not sure what this book was when I decided to order it.It has quickly become one of my very favorite books ever.The pictures are beautifully rendered and the story is an 'every immigrants' story.The thing that sets this aside from the average telling of a story of immigration is that it happens in a world none of us knows.There are very subtle but important differences in landscape and neighborhoods as well as animals, architecture, language, clothing etc that make you realize that though ... Read More
- The ArrivalThe Arrival by Shaun Tan
Once, as a boy, I was exploring the recesses of my grandmother's attic.Lifting the lid of an old trunk I discovered a thick envelope full of yellowed papers.The handwriting was ornate and fading; the language indecipherable - a mystery begging to be solved.
That's how I felt reading Shaun Tan's The Arrival.This engrossing book has the feel of old documents or a family album that has been lost for years.Pick it up and you hold in your hand the account of ... Read More
- Surreal experienceVery few books give me a good chill. I equate Shaun Tan's "The Arrival" with "The First man" by Camus and great works by E.M. Forster and V. Woolf.
- An amazing insight into arriving in a new landA beautiful story, and a unique experience as it truly makes you feel as confused and alienated as the man must have felt arriving, and trying to get by, in this strange new land. The character's reactions and experiences seem so realistic given the stark contrast of odd creatures and landscapes. I would recommend this to anyone, immigrant or not.
