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4 stars
Lovely artwork in this wordless tale of an immigrant who goes to a strange land, not our own.
Read as part of Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge 2025, prompt 23, “read a wordless comic.).
Lovely artwork in this wordless tale of an immigrant who goes to a strange land, not our own.
Read as part of Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge 2025, prompt 23, “read a wordless comic.).
Nov 16, 2007
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
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it was amazing
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I didn't think I would like this when I first started reading it, but by the end I thought it was brilliant. In a book consisting entirely of pictures, with no words, Tan has vividly portrayed what it is like to be an immigrant to another country. In this story, an ordinary looking man immigrates to a country where some things look familiar, but most things look alien. He doesn't know the language, and with difficulty communicating he manages to find a place to live, a job, and friends. Tan's il
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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
Aug 27, 2009
Pumpkin
marked it as to-read
