![]() ![]() Sometimes the main character meets others who tell their own tale-and the coloring is just different enough to let you know it's a new POV, without losing the continuity. The colors are black and white blending to sepia at different points of the story. ![]() When the artist chooses to devote a whole page to one scene, it is breathtaking. Instead, each of the small squares could be framed. The Arrival by Shaun Tan 4.8 (20) Hardcover 19.49 21.99 Save 11 View All Available Formats & Editions Premium Members save an additional 10 and earn stamps to save even more. The storyline is told cleanly in an easy-to-follow format of boxes, so even a novice to the graphic novel can enjoy it. The book's photo-realistic illustrations depict an invented world that blends the familiar with the fantastical, and the antiquated with the futuristic. ![]() Without the familiarity of words, the viewer is forced to experience alongside the protagonist the confusion of a new land: the food, animals and language. Shaun Tan 's The Arrival is a wordless graphic novel about a man who immigrates to a foreign land to establish a better life for his family. For people of all ages interested in the experience of those who have had to leave their homelands and start over in a strange world, this is a graphic novel to be cherished. It is a migrant story told entirely through art. The Arrival by Shaun Tan is a rare storytelling gem. ![]()
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