Burma Chronicles

Informationen zum Autor Guy Delisle was born in Quebec City, Canada. His bestselling and acclaimed travelogues ( Pyongyang, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, Burma Chronicles, and Shenzhen ) are defining works of graphic nonfiction, and in 2012, Delisle was awarded the top prize in European cartooning when the French edition of Jerusalem was named Best Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. He lives in France with his wife and children. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Guy Delisle, Delisle Guy
• Publisher: JONATHAN CAPE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2011
• EAN: 9780224096188
• ISBN: 978-0-224-09618-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 214 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, Myanmar (Burma), Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions