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    <![CDATA[The Arrival]]>
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    <![CDATA[In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to cross the ocean. He's embarking on the most painful yet important journey of his life- he's leaving home to build a better future for his family. <br/><em>Shaun Tan</em> evokes universal aspects of an immigrant's experience through a singular work of the imagination. He does so using brilliantly clear and mesmerizing images. Because the main character can't communicate in words, the book forgoes them too. But while the reader experiences the main character's isolation, he also shares his ultimate joy.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Arrival is the tale of a man who leaves his family and his troubled homeland to emigrate to a new world.  It is very much set up as a turn of the 19th century sort of tale with an Asian man coming to America through Ellis Island, except that this story takes place in a world with a bit more myth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25038502">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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