This is a companion volume to The Arrival, comprising 50 pages of my preliminary sketches, research materials and commentary on the evolution of this project. It is currently part of a special boxed edition of The Arrival produced by Hachette Australia, from September 2010. For further information, visit the Hachette Website.

This is a companion volume to The Arrival, comprising 50 pages of my preliminary sketches, research materials and commentary on the evolution of this project. It is currently part of a special boxed edition of The Arrival produced by Hachette Australia, from September 2010. For further information, visit the Hachette Website.

In SKETCHES FROM A NAMELESS LAND, author Shaun Tan explains the origins of his ideas, using examples from early research and concept sketches through to finished artwork. In tracing this evolution, he sheds light on the silent language of images, the spirit of the migrant experience and the artist's creative journey.

The autobiographical novel of a journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.

A moving and beautiful novel of the transformation of rural England. Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, the Enigma of Arrival is the story of a young Indian from the Crown Colony of Trinidad who arrives in post-imperial England and consciously, over many years, finds himself as a writer. As he does so, he also observes t...(展开全部)

Groundbreaking new work from the controversial author of The Invention of the Jewish People Following his acclaimed and controversial Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand examines the mysterious sacred land that has become the site of the longest-running national struggle of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Invention of the Land of Israel deconstructs the ag...(展开全部)

施罗默·桑德，以色列特拉维夫大学历史学教授，法国社会科学高等研究院客座教授。1946年生于奥地利林茨，是大屠杀中幸存下来的波兰裔犹太人，幼年生活在难民收容所，1948年举家迁往雅法。主要研究领域为民族与民族主义、法国知识分子历史、电影史等。其代表“虚构三部曲”《虚构的犹太民族》《虚构的以色列》《我为何放弃做犹太人》在以色列和西方学界引起轰动。另著有《知识分子、真相和权力：从德雷福斯时间到海湾战争》《词语和土地：以色列知识分子和民族主义神话》等。

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers each providing a glimpse of love,...(展开全部)

Turgenev's first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches: the observations and anecdotes of the author during his travels through Russia satisfying his passion for hunting. His album is filled with moving insights into the lives of those he encounters peasants and landowners, doctors and bailiffs, neglected wives and bereft mothers each providing a glimpse of love,...(展开全部)

Robert V. Remini's A Short History of the United States is an abbreviated, accessible, lively, and erudite narrative history that contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions. Racing across the centuries—from the arrival and migration of Native Americans and the discovery of the New World by ...(展开全部)