Description
In this insightful graphic memoir, a cartoonist follows his wife, an aid worker with Médecins Sans Frontières, to Myanmar, where he spends a year navigating life in Yangon while caring for their young son. With wry humor and deceptively simple black-and-white drawings, he observes cultural differences, expatriate routines, bureaucratic absurdities, and the everyday resilience of people living under military rule. As his experiences extend beyond the capital, the book offers a more sobering look at the obstacles faced by humanitarian organizations and the devastating effects of poverty, ethnic conflict, drug addiction, and political repression. Both intimate and wide-ranging, it combines personal travelogue with a clear-eyed portrait of a country struggling for survival and change.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2017
271 pages
ISBN: 9781473547148
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Translation
From: fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle.