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I really like Australian media. Something about their quirky sensibility just hits me in a profound way.
This is the first prose work I've read by Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, a wordless gn which puts a whole new face on immigration. I liked The Arrival, but I LOVED this.
It's part short story collection, part gn, part wordless picture book, part friend of The Invention of Hugo Cabret. All the stories are set in a slightly melting clocks version of Australian suburbia. I intend to read eit ...more
This is the first prose work I've read by Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, a wordless gn which puts a whole new face on immigration. I liked The Arrival, but I LOVED this.
It's part short story collection, part gn, part wordless picture book, part friend of The Invention of Hugo Cabret. All the stories are set in a slightly melting clocks version of Australian suburbia. I intend to read eit ...more
I really liked this one, but not everyone will. The tales are the epitome of quirky, with secret poetry gathering like a snowball into an enormous ball in the sky, leaf-like exchange students, and instructions on making your own pet. I liked visiting this strange, enchanting world, where water buffalos point you in the right direction.
In one story (chosen at random), a dugong just APPEARS on the lawn of number 17, where before all anyone noticed was all the shouting and crashing going on inside ...more
In one story (chosen at random), a dugong just APPEARS on the lawn of number 17, where before all anyone noticed was all the shouting and crashing going on inside ...more
