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| Original Title: | Chroniques birmanes |
| ISBN: | 0224087711 (ISBN13: 9780224087711) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Myanmar Burma |
Guy Delisle
Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages Rating: 3.99 | 10161 Users | 764 Reviews
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| Title | : | Burma Chronicles |
| Author | : | Guy Delisle |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2009 by Jonathan Cape (first published October 17th 2007) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Nonfiction. Travel. Bande Dessinée. Autobiography. Memoir |
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So here's what sums up why this book failed to impress me:Halfway through, Delisle is showing a western journalist/illustrator around Burma/Myanmar. He points out how people carry their umbrellas stuffed into the back of their longyis (or lungis as we call them in India) and also sometimes hanging from the backs of their shirt collars - which he calls 'weird'. I don't know man. Walking through crowded chaotic streets - makes sense you'd want your hands free. But because that's not how they do it back in Canafrancadapolis, it's 'weird'.
A few pages later, Delisle and the other white guy are stuck under a tree in a rural area, stranded in the rains. A villager comes running up to them twice, to bring an umbrella each for them. He then invites them back to his house to warm up and eat something. Someone who speaks English is found to interpret. Delisle explains that a government worker also has to be present to report on their conversations.
In all this, Delilsle fails to note the selfless compassion shown by a man who at least once walked back to his home without an umbrella to help out two grown men who were incapable of making their way through the same rain. In fact, looking at the drawings (in Delisle's crude but moderately effective style), it is clear that their host never used an umbrella himself.
You know what's 'weird' Delisle? The fact that you take this incredible act of gallantry totally for granted. that's fucking weird.
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Ratings: 3.99 From 10161 Users | 764 ReviewsWeigh Up Epithetical Books Burma Chronicles
What I most love about this book is how political it WASN'T. DeLisle, considering the area he was living in, could have spent this entire book rightfully decrying a horrible and violent government, but instead choose to focus on daily life, the heat, the locals love for his cute baby, the rains, and a hundred other aspects of simple human life. Politics, of course, inevitably come into the mix, but when they do I felt so grounded by the "human" establishment that the politics had actualGood work. Better than Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea. Guy Delisle seems more accepting towards the local culture in Burma Chronicles than what he seemed to be in Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea. And I think its obvious. He stayed in Pyongyang for only 2 months and his social circle consisted only of other foreigners like him. The only substantial contact he ever had with the locals was with his guides provided by the government of North Korea. So, it was natural that a certain
this book's portrait of Burma was interesting, showing a much more modern society than one would expect, as the country is in the grip of a vicious junta. although any problem the people might face pales in comparison the the indignities suffered by the author: lack of air conditioning, inability to get into an exclusive country club, power outages, having to drink Coke, pain in elbow forcing him to play Warcraft all day. the author comes across as a whiny bastard. while his wife works as a
There are so many beautiful graphic novels out there. It's a bit difficult to get hands on the ones I cherish. But it's good that some of them are available O:) Guy Delisle's travelogue comics are interesting. This is the second book I am reading in a row sketched by him. This one is about his almost one year's stay in Burma in 2008 during the dictatorship regime. Aung Saan Suu Kyi was still under house arrest. Oh I learnt, some countries like USA, UK, Australia, Canada etc. still refer the
This is my first book by Delisle so I can`t say that the others are much better than this one.I lived in a foreign country for 5 years now so I found quite interesting & fascinating to see glimpses of real life from the exotic Myanmar.
Burma Chronicles is an autobiographical account of a family who stayed in Burma for one year. The author is married to a worker for Doctors Without Borders and their family gets assigned to work in Burma for one year. While his wife makes trips into the less populated and underprivileged areas of the country, Guy is left back in the city with his very young son and too much time on his hands. He uses this time to do his cartooning, explore the city and get to know the culture a bit more.The book
Poignant and melancholic. Penetrates the heart. Good work. Loved the illustrations.Recommended to graphic novel readers.
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