The Arrival
Author & Illustrator: Shaun Tan
Publisher: Hodder Childrens Books
Print Length: 132 pages
Genre: Graphic Novel / Comic Book, Fiction / Fantasy, Historical Fiction
Topic: Migrants, Migration, Refugees & Forced Migration, Violence & Mass Violence, Loneliness & Isolatedness, Resilience, Survival, Hope
The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images.
A man leaves his wife and child in an impoverished town, seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He eventually finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase and a handful of currency, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of gainful employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.
Shaun Tan is the illustrator and author of award-winning children’s books. After freelancing for some years from a studio at Mt. Lawley, Tan relocated to Melbourne, Victoria in 2007. He is best known for illustrated books that deal with social and historical subjects through dream-like imagery, widely translated throughout the world and enjoyed by readers of all ages. Artist, writer and film-maker Shaun Tan has published over 16 picture books and is the recipient of an Academy Award for the short animated film The Lost Thing. He also received the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in Sweden and the Kate Greenaway Medal in the UK. His works have inspired multiple theatre productions, and have been translated all over the world. He has worked as a concept artist for Pixar’s WALL-E and designed contraptions for Blue Sky’s adaptation of Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss.
Source: https://goodreads.com/book/show/920607.The_Arrival & https://weareplaygrounds.nl/artist/shaun-tan/
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