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Title	:	Burma Chronicles
Author	:	Guy Delisle
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First 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

Burma Chronicles

Guy Delisle

Hardcover | Pages: 272 pages

Rating: 3.99 | 10161 Users | 764 Reviews

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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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Original Title:	Chroniques birmanes
ISBN:	0224087711 (ISBN13: 9780224087711)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Myanmar Burma

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Interesting because you learn about Burma. Annoying because the whole book seems to be more about Delisle than the country and the people in it. Even his wife only has a very marginal role in the comic, even when they are on trips together. I think his work will improve when he focuses less on himself and more on the world around him.

What a delightful read! Guy Delisle has chronicled his stay in Burma so well you almost feel like you're on a trip. A very good book to get started with if you're interested in different cultures around the world. Delisle has illustrated nearly everything - his day to day adventures, some isolated incidents, little surprises...you feel as though you're exploring Burma alongside him. Pick it up and go visit a new country sometime!



Good 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

The author chronicles his time in Burma/Myanmar. His wife has been sent there by Doctors Without Borders France. He is a stay at home dad, working on his cartoon books including this graphic presentation of his stay in Burma.Delisle draws images of daily life. There are representations of architecture, the constant heat, the polluted water, snakes, mosquito netting etc. There are social events, searches for working internet connections, attempts to see or reach Aung San Suu Kyi, and monks who

I always thought Burma was a small agrarian economy somewhere in East Asia. Dependent on rice and agriculture and subject to monsoons. Maybe it was the medium of the book - graphic novel - or it was the easy way in which the author describes his experiences with Medicins Sans Frontiers in the country that got me. The story lays bare the extreme censorship of freedom including those of human rights. When mines caved in the Govt simply covered them without even thinking about rescuing the miners.

The cartoonist, his wife and son move to Myanmmar when his wife, who works for Doctors Without Borders, is posted there for a year. In that year, the cartoonist looks after their son, Louis, and shares his daily life with us through his strips. His depiction of everyday Burmese life, from the morning jaunts by the monks seeking alms, to the frequent power outage, government censorship, government corruption and nepotism, expat life, developing local friends and Burmese culture. He's provided a