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i read it, or looked at it (there isn't a single word in the whole book; wait, there are words, but i didn't have the key). i was disturbed by the fact that the copy i got from the library was all battered. i thought poorly of public library users until i realized that was actually the design. it wasn't battered at all.
anyway, i'm done. it's taken me two renewals and a starbucks' latte's worth of late fees. once i actually cracked it open it took me only maybe a week. it's a beautiful book and ...more
anyway, i'm done. it's taken me two renewals and a starbucks' latte's worth of late fees. once i actually cracked it open it took me only maybe a week. it's a beautiful book and ...more
Wordless, beautiful, wispy, perfect. Told in fantastical sketches, a father emigrates. He receives help in understanding the new home by strangers, other immigrants (I'm probably switching up imm/em-igrate) with harrowing stories. The last few pages caused me to tear up in the bookstore.
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Hooked by this review: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... ...more
The story of a man who leaves his family behind, and immigrates to a new country where everything is unfamiliar - the food, the language, the pets, even the plumbing. He is leaving behind an unspecified menace, represented by the shadow of a dragon's tail.
In the new country, he meets other immigrants, who help him adjust, and who share their own immigration stories. One person comes from a country where giant "exterminators" came in and were fumigating the inhabitants. It's a fantastic and shock ...more
In the new country, he meets other immigrants, who help him adjust, and who share their own immigration stories. One person comes from a country where giant "exterminators" came in and were fumigating the inhabitants. It's a fantastic and shock ...more
Beautiful and strange!
Tan's wordless story of the immigrant experience is a visually stunning knockout. Tan's story tells of a nameless man who moves to a new country to better support his family. He struggles with everything, and is helped by earlier immigrants who share their experiences with him. Eventually he's able to bring his wife and daughter to live with him, and the book ends with his daughter now the one helping out a new arrival. By placing the reader in the same boat as his protagonist, Tan is able to ev
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Having just moved from one international posting to another, I felt the immigrant's bewilderment and incomprehension of his new home. This would make a great addition to a literature study for middle school students on migration and its challenges.
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An extraordinary book about the immigrant experience. I'm not a very visual person, so I was a little wary of a wordless book, but the images and story are so evocative that I fell in love with it. Alternately funny, sweet, and heartwrenching.
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Stunning graphic novel wordlessly depicts the emotions and confusions of a man who moves to a new world and tries to find a job and a place for his family. Would appeal to Y, YA and adult readers.
Aug 27, 2009
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