Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

One of the few Westerners granted access to North Korea documents his observations of the secretive society in this graphic travelogue that depicts the cultural alienation, boredom, and desires of ordinary North Koreans.

Publisher Marketing: "Guy Delisle is a wry 37-year-old French Canadian cartoonist whose work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Pacific Rim studios on the grim frontiers of free trade. His employer puts him up for months at a time in 'cold and soulless' hotel rooms where he suffers the usual maladies of the long-term boarder: cultural and linguistic alienation, boredom, and cravings for Western food and real coffee. Delisle depicts these sojourns into the heart of isolation in [the] brilliant 'graphic novel' . . . "Pyongyang."" --"Foreign Affairs" Marc Notes : Translation of: Pyongyang.; Pbk reprint of 2005 ed. Biographical Note : Born in Québec City, Canada, in 1966, Guy Delisle now lives in the south of France with his wife and two children. Delisle spent ten years working in animation, which allowed him to learn about movement and drawing. He is best known for his travelogues about life in faraway countries: Burma Chronicles , Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City , Pyongyang, and Shenzhen . He has since expanded his oeuvre by telling a Doctors Without Borders acquaintance's story as a nail-biting thriller ( Hostage ) and revisiting his teen years and first summer job ( Factory Summers ). Publisher Marketing :

Format: Paperback | Pages: 192 | Publication Date: 2018-10-02