The Viewer

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Young Tristan, a curious boy who rescues all sorts of objects from the rubbishdump, finds an old Viewmaster in its elaborate box, complete with a set ofdisks. He finds that these r epresent the ages of humankind, seen as a cyclicalstructure in which patterns of growth and decay are repeated. Tristan becomesmore and more drawn in to the world of the disks, and eventually disappears.The book is full of metaphors and symbols of seeing and watching, circularityand never-endingness, in a complex, fantastical tale, which was Shaun Tan'sfirst picture book." Show more