The Arrival by Shaun Tan
The Arrival is a migrant story told as a series of wordless images that might seem
to come from a long forgotten time. 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.
#ReadingDaringly #DarllenBeiddgar
No comments:
Post a Comment