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The Arrival

Shaun Tan

128 pages

About this book

In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and try to support his family back home. His new country is full of strange arquitectural wonders, fantastic animals and other immigrants with stories of why they left home.

Themes
Dreamlike & SurrealHeartfelt & EmotionalMelancholic & NostalgicThought-ProvokingMysteriousSilent universal displacementNavigating alien landscapesShared immigrant resilience
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