Pyongyang : a journey in North Korea / Guy Delisle ; translated by Helge Dascher.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: [Montréal, Québec] : Drawn & Quarterly, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: Second paperback editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations, map ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 1770463372
- 9781770463370
- Pyongyang. English
- Delisle, Guy -- Travel -- Korea (North) -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Korea (North) -- Civilization -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Korea (North) -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc
- P'yŏngyang (Korea) -- Social conditions -- Comic books, strips, etc
- P'yŏngyang (Korea) -- Description and travel -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 21st century -- Comic books, strips, etc
- Korea (North) -- Description and travel -- Comic books, strips, etc
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- PN6733.D44 P913 2018
- DS932.7 .D45 2018
- American Library Association Young Adult Library Services Association--YALSA--Best Books for Young Adults (2006); American Library Association-YA (2006)
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951.93 FRE North Korea : the paranoid peninsula--a modern history / | 951.93043 BEA North Korea : the struggle against American power / | 951.93043 JEF North Korea : a guide to economic and political developments / | 951.93051 DEL Pyongyang : a journey in North Korea / | 951.95 KOR Guide to Korean cultural heritage. | 952 COM A companion to Japanese history / | 952 HAR The undefeated : the rise, fall & rise of greater Japan. |
"The perennial graphic novel about a "hermit country," with a new cover and an introduction by Gore Verbinski, Guy Delisle's Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea is the graphic novel that made his career, an international bestseller for more than ten years. Delisle became one of the few Westerners to be allowed access to the fortress-like country when he was working in animation for a French company. While living in the nation's capital for two months on a work visa, Delisle observed everything he was allowed to see of the culture and lives of the few North Koreans he encountered, bringing a sardonic and skeptical perspective on a place rife with propaganda. As a guide to the country, Delisle is a non-believer with a keen eye for the humor and tragedy of dictatorial whims, expressed in looming architecture and tiny, omnipresent photos of the president. The absurd vagaries of everyday life become fodder for a frustrated animator's musings as boredom and censorship sink in. Delisle himself is the ideal foil for North Korean spin, the grumpy outsider who brought a copy of George Orwell's 1984 with him into the totalitarian nation. Pyongyang is an informative, personal, and accessible look at a dangerous and enigmatic country." -- Publisher
Translation (from French) of: Pyongyang.
American Library Association Young Adult Library Services Association--YALSA--Best Books for Young Adults (2006); American Library Association-YA (2006)
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