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Burma Chronicles

by Guy Delisle
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Burma Chronicles
Burma Chronicles

Graphic travelogue unveiling Burma's concealed reality.

If you're drawn to stories that explore the complexities of a country through the intimate lens of someone's personal journey, then "Burma Chronicles" might feel like a gateway to an enigmatic world. Guy Delisle's graphic novel offers an immersive peek into a country rife with contradictions, underpinned by an artist's eye for detail and a storyteller's subtle critique. It will captivate you with its humanizing anecdotes amidst Burma's challenging political landscape.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Burma Chronicles

by Guy Delisle
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ISBN: 9780224096188
Authors: Guy Delisle
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date of Publication: 2011-09-08
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Travel, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Biography, Travelogue, Memoir
Goodreads rating: 4.0
(rated by 13858 readers)

Description

After developing his acclaimed style of firsthand reporting with his bestselling graphic novels "A Journey in North Korea" and "A Travelogue from China", Guy Delisle is back with "Burma Chronicles". In this country notorious for its use of concealment and isolation as social control - where scissors-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 - he turns his gaze to the everyday for a sense of the bigger picture. Delisle's deft and recognisable renderings take note of almsgiving rituals, daylong power-cuts and rampant heroin use in outlying regions, in this place where catastrophic mismanagement and ironhanded rule come up against profound resilience of spirit, expatriate life ambles along, and non-governmental organisations struggle with the risk of co-option by the military junta. "Burma Chronicles" is drawn with a minimal line, and interspersed with wordless vignettes and moments of Delisle's distinctive slapstick humour.
 

Graphic travelogue unveiling Burma's concealed reality.

If you're drawn to stories that explore the complexities of a country through the intimate lens of someone's personal journey, then "Burma Chronicles" might feel like a gateway to an enigmatic world. Guy Delisle's graphic novel offers an immersive peek into a country rife with contradictions, underpinned by an artist's eye for detail and a storyteller's subtle critique. It will captivate you with its humanizing anecdotes amidst Burma's challenging political landscape.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.