Surprisingly beautiful.

  The author is married to a Doctors Without Borders physician who is working in Burma. He describes the joys and pains of living there in a low key way.

  What I most love about this book is how political it WASN'T. Instead of decrying a horrible and violent government of the area he was living in, Delisle choose to focus on daily life, the heat, the locals love for his cute baby, the rains, and many other aspects of simple human life.

  He describes in his book that: when he goes for a walk he notices that his neighbor is a well-known politician, who is under house arrest for many years. When he uses the internet, the connection is intermittent and what he can access is restricted. When he shows his casual animation class a published cartoon, they become afraid for their safety if they’re seen associating with someone who is in any way critical of the government, even in a joking cartoon. Those  scenes show that the auhor’s daily life is affected by the ruling dictatorship of the country he is in.

  The resigned, difficult, painful life of the people of Burma is gradually revealed by this sweet and lovely story which makes more poignant.

Comments on Guy Delisle’s comic-book style travelogue, Burma Chronicles by Dan

Burma Chronicles Myanmar: An Overview by Lindsay S

Burma Chronicles --- Comics by Ling

Love the world in Comics by Xia Chen

Thoughts on Burma Chronicles by Phyllis

Burma Chronicles Thoughts by Lora

Burma, opposing images by Erica

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