This is the first work that we give you as food .. Right to displace and to emphasize that literary culture is not just blood sweat and tears, the chosen language is that of comics. Stripped
your eyes from all prejudices, listen to what the author wants to tell you, you will be amazed in front of a documentary so realistic.
After "Pyongyang" and "Shenzhen", the Canadian pencil artist back in the Far East for a new cartoon reportage, affectionate but merciless, from a country that experienced a period of dramatic changes. Small moments, some wonderful, very tragic, all unforgettable masterpiece. This is a book - suspended between journalism and graphic graphic novel - an ironic and poignant, in which we talk about Buddhism and Repression, AIDS and mine, monsoons and NGOs. Guy Delisle, who has lived for more than a year in Burma, where his wife was on a mission to "Doctors Without Frontiers, table after table gives us a country oppressed by the military dictatorship, poverty and disease, but also evokes the truth of a generous and open people. Title: Burma Chronicles
Author: Guy Delisle
Publisher: Time Zones
Publication date: 2008
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