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octavia_cade 's review for:
The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
This is outstanding. I've just read it for the first time, and I'm tearing up in the public library. It's so affecting, and so clever - the book's entirely visual, lacking text because the immigrants at the centre of the narrative lack the language to communicate with the people of their new home through anything other than drawings and gestures. And while the book follows the splitting and reconciliation of a single family, there are a number of supporting stories of other immigrants who have had to make the same journey, albeit from different places and for different reasons. And for all the grimness of the story - and parts of it can be very grim - there's still a sense of kindness and hope here and it's just so wonderful I'm going to have to find a copy for myself.