Published by Jonathan Cape, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
£12.99
Author:
Guy Delisle
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780224096188
£12.99
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EAN: 9780224096188
Published: 8 Sep 2011
Guy Delisle's newest travelogue revolves around a year spent in Burma (also known as Myanmar) with his wife and son. Burma is notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control: where scissor-wielding censors monitor the papers, the de facto leader of the opposition has been under decade-long house arrest, insurgent-controlled regions are effectively cut off from the world, and rumour is the most reliable source of current information.
An impressive and moving work of comics journalism from the author of Pyongyang and Shenzen.
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Simply put, Burma Chronicles is the most enlightening and insightful book on Burma in years... If you must visit Burma while it remains under the rule of the iniquitous junta, do so with the express intention of bearing witness to the tragedy and suffering of its people. Better still, stay away, and visit it instead through the pages of this heartbreaking, educational and insightful comic masterpiece
- Guardian
As a counterpoint to the often inaccessible news stories about the country, this is an excellent portrait of a little-understood land, and makes for a deeply original and fascinating piece of travel writing
- Daily Telegraph
Hilarious and touching
- Dazed
This book is more fun than most holidays and more enlightening than a hundred blogs by self-appointed experience censors
- Time Out
Guy Delisle was born in Quebec City in 1966 and has spent the last decade living and working in France. He has written and drawn four graphic novels including Shenzen, an account of his travels in China, and Pyongyang, an account of his experiences in North Korea.
