From the critically acclaimed author of Pyongyang, Shenzhen is another masterful graphic novel that will appeal to fans of Marjane Satrapi and Joe Sacco.
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 was born in Quebec City in 1966 and has spent the last decade living and working in France. He has written and drawn four graphic novels including Pyongyang, an account of his experiences in North Korea.
"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."
*New York Times Book Review*
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