Tales From Outer Suburbia

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Where do you go from here in a story titled “Undertow”? Australian author/artist Shaun Tan has THE most interesting imagination. The stories are short and thought-provoking in the extreme. They are the sort of topics that are going to leave people with differing opinions and the urge to express them. Broken toys as metaphor for broken heart? Man in heavy suit metaphor for the experience of immigrant dislocation? Is this too easy? Too broad? What a brilliant idea 'the Other Country' is. What if there was a secret room in your home that lead to a whole huge world all your own? This is one of my favorites. is this really for children?? are children really this sad and dark and complicated emotionally?? i don't know, but i know that this book is outstanding. i think in a way it is harder to tell a story without words, like the arrival, but this shows that he is also an exceptional word-story-teller. and i am an exceptional word-hyphen-stringer.

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Find something around your house which is old or dilapidated or broken and make a still life sketch of it a la “Broken Toys”. The Lost Thing has also been adapted as a play by the Jigsaw Theatre Company, [27] a youth theatre company in Canberra. This was the main event for the National Gallery of Australia's Children Festival ( Canberra) and at the Chookahs! Kids Festival ( Melbourne) in 2006. Shaun Tan is making use of the plot points straight out of fairy tale, as described by Vladimir Propp. How many can you find? One of my favorite short stories is the one I chose to open this sort of review with: "Distant rain". Anything unoriginal, like the title, becomes part of something memorable if there’s a skilled pen involved. You should take a look. This short story resembles a dual prose-poem: light and simple on the surface but heavy and perplexing if one digs deeper, as it carries the weight of unspoken emotions. The Red Tree, a play based on Tan's book of the same name, was commissioned by the Queensland Performing Arts Centre. [24]

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This may be the most beautiful book you'll see all year. It's an illustrated collection of stories set in the Australian suburbs, about how the fantastic keeps erupting into the most mundane daily lives. Once you've read it, you may find yourself feeling as though an exchange student from another planet has dropped by and left a glowing matchbox garden in your kitchen cupboard. Source: The Guardian

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The Battle is with herself — between the self that wants to show Eric everything she knows, and the self that’s open to learning from the foreigner.

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When designers try to maximize the number of cul-de-sacs in an area, they create a dendritic—or treelike—system of roads that feeds all their traffic into a few main branches. The system makes just about every destination farther away because it eliminates the most direct routes between them. Connectivity counts: More intersections mean more walking, and more disconnected cul-de-sacs mean more driving. People who live in neighborhoods with latticeworklike streets actually drive 26 percent fewer miles than people in the cul-de-sac forest. We are pushed and pulled according to the systems in which we find ourselves, and certain geometries ensure that none of us are as free as we might think. Why cul-de-sacs are bad for your health, Slate from Unhinged from Unhinged from Unhinged For me this story is an allegory about how we take massive breakthroughs in science for granted, impressed one day, taking it for granted the next. As a writer, I love finding books that humble me, and Shaun Tan's books always seem to manage that. I highly recommend this book to readers of all ages.