![]() This is one aspect of the book that left a deep impression on me. ![]() The Arrival is rich with this theme and the circular journey that occurs in this book is deeply rewarding, as are the connections between characters that are made, both adults and children. Being half Chinese at "a time and a place when this was fairly unusual" the concept of belonging is not new to Tan. Of his work, Tan has said that he has a recurring interest in "notions of 'belonging', particularly finding or losing it." Tan is a native of Perth, Australia, which he describes as being "one of the most isolated cities in the world, sandwiched between a vast desert and a vaster ocean." His father emigrated there from Malaysia in 1960 to study architecture. While the plot of the book can be told in one or two sentences, the experience of reading The Arrival can take up paragraphs of writing. The event that begins the story of Shaun Tan's book is a father leaving his wife and child to find a better life in a new land, a life that his family might be able to join him in one day. ![]()
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