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While I'm not a huge "comic book nerd," I have long championed the belief that comic books can be far more than mindless adolescent entertainment, and that there's far more to the genre than superhero action and Japanese manga. Nothing wrong with those two genres, but there have been so many other graphic novels that have proven that the graphic novel can be just as much a work of art as any other medium. Art Spiegelman's "Maus," Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis," and Guy Delisle's "Pyongyang" showed that the graphic novel can serve as a penetrating look into another culture and/or historical era, while Doug TenNapel's "Ghostopolis," Jane Yolen's "Foiled," and Jeff Smith's "Bone" series showed that the graphic novel can be used to tell epic fantasy or supernatural stories that don't involve superheroes swooping in to save the day. Like any genre, it can have its weaker entries, but I feel a work should NOT be dismissed as unintelligent drivel just because it's in a comic book format.
Shaun Tan's "The Arrival," at first glance, looked like a surreal fantasy. And in a way, it is. But it's also far more than that -- it's a new approach to showing the immigrant experience, and shows the reader just how alien a new homeland can look to one who has just arrived from far away.
"The Arrival" opens with a nameless man leaving his wife and daughter behind to travel to a new land, hoping to start a new life for his family. While the first few pages seem ordinary enough -- their homeland and their manner of dress look vaguely early-20th-century European -- right away we get clues that this is no ordinary immigrant story, as shadowy, draconian specters loom over their homeland.Read more ›
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256 of 267 people found the following review helpful
There are some books that come across my plate that strike me as mildly amusing. There are some books I develop a passion for over time. But once in a very great while, one per year if I'm lucky, I will find a book that gives me a powerful shock. An almost electric, instantaneous passion. "The Arrival" by Shaun Tan is the most amazing thing I've had the pleasure to read in years. A silent story of sequenced panels, "The Arrival" tells the story of a man's immigration to a strange new land, and the people and places he discovers in the course of finding a place to call home. I have never read any book that puts the reader so perfectly into the shoes of someone who finds themselves somewhere that is completely and utterly bewildering to the senses.
A man prepares to leave his family for a new world. Tearfully they let him go as he boards a ship for another land. Once he arrives, he finds himself at a loss. Everything from the language to the buildings to the birds is strange here. The reader of this book sympathizes easily with the man since author/illustrator Shaun Tan has created a world that is just as odd to us as it is to our protagonist. Appliances consist of confusing pulls and toggles. People live and work in plate and cone-shaped structures, traveling via dirigibles and strange ship-shaped machinations of flight. As the man proceeds to discover how to find lodging, food, and work, he meets other immigrants who tell their own stories of hardship and escape. Through all this, our man grows richer for his experiences and even grows to love the odd little white-legged cat-sized tadpole creature that follows him everywhere.Read more ›
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I adore this book. I bought it after I moved back to the US from living in another country. It's very sweet and the message is communicated so well. I've used it with my students as well.
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This is a beautiful book that examines, wordlessly, the experience of an immigrant in a new land. I love the way Mr. Tan took the unusual and made it more so. This so clearly helps one understand how a stranger in a strange land apprehends a new life with all of its mysteries and conundrums. He is a gifted artist and his illustrations are masterful. I look forward to sharing this book with my grandchild. It will help explain the way we have all come to understand the land we have adopted.
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+ So poetic, strong and beautiful. + I cried so much while reading it. + It traces so many historical points, family events that most people can identify themselves at some point in it. + Very creative drawings. + No text at all.. so actually EVERYONE can "read" it... No language barrier. + It is one of the most beautiful and powerful book / comic I have ever read.
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I first saw this book in a shop in Paris last summer and the brief 10 minutes I spent reading it stayed lodged in my brain until 6 months later I bought the English version. Bizarre and touching. A beautiful example of a picture speaking a thousand words.
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