«The Arrival. Arrival "- the legendary graphic novel Shaun Tan

«The Arrival. Arrival "- the legendary graphic novel Sean Tan
(artist and illustrator, winner of the Astrid Lindgren and Oscar winner), which he created for four years. & quot; «Arrival" - a story about a man who goes out of conditional Old World into a more conventional New in search of better lives, leaving the family home - his wife and daughter. Old Tang collects light from a recognizable visual building blocks: a close, shabby kitchen, a city without green on the walls of houses are torn shadow of the dragon's tail ... the New World in the "Arrival" is really new. Monument to the Unknown creatures (it exists) in the squares. Balloons instead of a taxi, the newspaper printed an unknown alphabet, nothing on similar urban fauna. And now it turns out that the book without words - the only way to pass so sharply dumbness immigrant in a new world and his consternation over the other. The hero encounters other immigrants, hears their stories, drawing in his notebook, trying to communicate with the local, someone does not understand the language, he gets a job - and all this in the ringing silence that can only occur when the receding rumble foreign voices. Alone, possible only with the full rejection of the language. Hero Tana is mute the deaf in the country - not for nothing that a real friendship he is tied to the local dog (nothing, however, is not actually a dog-like). & Quot;