Author(s): Gary Crew,Shaun Tan
No. of Pages: 32 pages
Date Published: 05 Jan 2012
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Format: Paperback | 32 pages
Dimensions: 260 x 279 x 7mm | 238g
Language: English
Publication City/Country: Sydney, Australia
Edition: UK ed.
Illustrations: Full Colour

Young Tristan, a curious boy who rescues all sorts of objects from the rubbish dump, finds an old Viewmaster in its elaborate box, complete with a set of disks. He finds that these represent the ages of humankind, seen as a cyclical structure in which patterns of growth and decay are repeated. Tristan becomes more and more drawn into the world of the disks, and eventually disappears. The book is full of metaphors and symbols of seeing and watching, circularity and never-endingness, in a complex, fantastical tale,.