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From: MShuttleworth at slv.vic.gov.au <MShuttleworth>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:31:02 +1000
I'm not sure how well American readers are with the work of Australian illustrator Shaun Tan, but he has a stunning book coming out here in the next fortnight. The Arrival is a 128 page wordless picture book in a graphic novel style. It's produced entirley in pencil then subtlely tinted to add tones and moods. But this is no inky comic!
The Arrival is the story of a migrant family's journey to a new country. It is, in the true sense of the word, an epic story, the journey of one family representing the many. Shaun's work often references other images
(not, I hasten to add, in any cheesy po-mo way) so it's not quite possible to say where the story takes place. Could be New York, could be Melbourne, could be a place that the artist has created and has drawn us into. There is also a beguiling interplay between what is left behind and what stays with the migrant.
The absence of words, particularly over such a long book, lends that feeling of dislocation, uncertainty, of things being withheld, the same feeling of coming to a new world.
Suffice to say, when this one washes up your shores, I think you are going to love The Arrival.
Mike
Mike Shuttleworth Program Co-ordinator Centre for Youth Literature 328 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000 PH: 03 8664 7262 FAX: 03 9639 4143 http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/youthlit/
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Received on Thu 28 Sep 2006 05:31:02 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:31:02 +1000
I'm not sure how well American readers are with the work of Australian illustrator Shaun Tan, but he has a stunning book coming out here in the next fortnight. The Arrival is a 128 page wordless picture book in a graphic novel style. It's produced entirley in pencil then subtlely tinted to add tones and moods. But this is no inky comic!
The Arrival is the story of a migrant family's journey to a new country. It is, in the true sense of the word, an epic story, the journey of one family representing the many. Shaun's work often references other images
(not, I hasten to add, in any cheesy po-mo way) so it's not quite possible to say where the story takes place. Could be New York, could be Melbourne, could be a place that the artist has created and has drawn us into. There is also a beguiling interplay between what is left behind and what stays with the migrant.
The absence of words, particularly over such a long book, lends that feeling of dislocation, uncertainty, of things being withheld, the same feeling of coming to a new world.
Suffice to say, when this one washes up your shores, I think you are going to love The Arrival.
Mike
Mike Shuttleworth Program Co-ordinator Centre for Youth Literature 328 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000 PH: 03 8664 7262 FAX: 03 9639 4143 http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/youthlit/
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