Shenzhen
A Travelogue From China
$47.40
- Paperback
152 pages
- Release Date
7 February 2019
Summary
From the critically acclaimed author of Pyongyang, Shenzhen is another masterful graphic novel that will appeal to fans of Marjane Satrapi and Joe Sacco.
Guy Delisle’s work for a French animation studio requires him to oversee production at various Asian 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 deprivations of a man very far from home. After Pyongyang
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787331709 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787331709 |
| Author: | Guy Delisle |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 7 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 278g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 154mm x 11mm |
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Critics Review
Like last year’s Pyongyang, about his similar stint in North Korea, Shenzhen is a casual, dryly witty series of observations… Delisle’s got an animator’s eye for quirks of motion, analyzing the arc of a public fountain’s water and the way street vendors make popcorn in a pressure cooker. The best artwork in the book is his impressionistic, unnarrated pen-and-ink-wash drawings of Shenzhen’s drab buildings and billboards, but Delisle’s keen awareness of how and why he can’t connect to the city makes for a rarity: a thoroughly engaging memoir of being bored to distraction. – Douglas Wolk * New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Guy Delisle
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 Angoulame International Comics Festival. He lives in France with his wife and children.
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