Name: Cicada
Brand: Hachette
SKU: 9780734421968
Price: 19.99 AUD
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Cicada - 9780734421968 - Shaun Tan - Hachette - The Little Lost Bookshop

Author: Shaun Tan | Publisher: Hachette

Cicada work in tall building.

Data entry clerk. Seventeen year.

No sick day. No mistake.

Tok Tok Tok!

Cicada works in an office, dutifully toiling day after day for unappreciative bosses and being bullied by his coworkers. But one day, cicada goes to the roof of the building, and something truly extraordinary happens ...

A story for anyone who has ever felt unappreciated, overlooked or overworked, from Australia's most acclaimed picture book creator. This is Shaun Tan's first author-illustrator book in five years, and his most important and moving fable since The Arrival.

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