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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780439895293
ISBN: 0439895294
Label: Arthur A. Levine Books
Manufacturer: Arthur A. Levine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: October 01, 2007
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Sales Rank: 1941
Studio: Arthur A. Levine Books
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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.
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Rating: - This book evokes the immigrant experience
The Arrival
In this wordless graphic novel, through magnificent illustrations, Tan captures the disorientation immigrants may feel toward their new surroundings. It depicts the journey of one man who seems both accepted and rejected by his new country. The only writing is in an invented alphabet, which motivates the viewer to feel confused just like the immigrants must feel when they encounter a strange new language and way of life. A feeling of tolerance and acceptance is presented throughout ... Read More
Rating: - Incredibly thought provoking and yet serene pictorial work of art
What else can I say which isn't mentioned by others and that I've already summed it in the title of this review.
The quality of the book is fabulous...hardcover with good texture and layout. The art (computer art) is provoking and Shaun had mastered the saying "a picture tells a thousand words"
It brings the reader (viewer?) into the shoes of the immigrant visiting a "world" that is totally strange to him (as possibly depicted by the weird things he encountered) as what a stranger ... Read More
Rating: - FOR THE GUESTS as much as FOR THE HOSTS
If you are a "Guest":
ANYONE WHO HAD TRAVELED away from their family, culture and land, will find comfort in this book. It provides with rich metaphors and imagery of departure, culture shock, misunderstandings, confusion, adaptation--you name it!--all of those experiences an immigrant or a long-distance traveler is going through.
If you are a "Host":
Likewise, ANYONE WHO'D EVER MET A FOREIGNER, and had difficulty communicating, or had ever occupied oneself with ... Read More
Rating: - Surreal, but Familiar
Shaun Tan's "The Arrival" is an enormously engaging book that captures solely through illustration, the pathos, despair, joy, longing and tenderness of leaving one's country and familyto come to a new land.In this new land of fantasy architecture, peculiar pets and wonderfully bizarre foods, the protagonist discovers many friends who give him comfort and share their knowledge with him.In an underlying theme, the reader experiences the tension of political upheaval and conflict through Tan's evocative presentation ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful, complex story
I reached the last page of this wordless book wanting only to go back to the first page again. It leaves a warm whirl of different impressions, none in conflict with each other but never wholly fitting together, either.
The drawing itself leaves many of those impressions. These delicate monochrome images, possibly pencil drawings, range from sepia to cool grays. Their beautiful, literal style works equally well at showing the joy of a little girl or the confusion of immigration to an alien culture. Despite ... Read More
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