Pyongyang
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417823543 (1417823542)
Publish date: May 1st 2007
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Edition language: English
This is an odd book. It brings together the graphic novel and North Korean austerity. Canadian animator Guy Delisle spent time in North Korea, which has apparently become the new favored source for cheap animation labor. In this book Delisle captures the absurdities of life in Pyongyang, more throug...
Aww man. Completely disappointing. Review to come.
Not bad. The graphics are good. But having said that, Guy Delisle's work fails to shed any new light about the life of people living in North Korea. It might have been a revealing work when it was first published but almost all the things mentioned in the book about North Korea could be found easily...
actually three stars, but gets one extra for the corto maltese references. :D
Good, but slight. I read it as a companion to Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea. They cover some of the same ground in describing life in North Korea, but Delisle never manages to get out of Pyongyang and Ordinary Lives goes into more detail. And it's more compelling to read anyway. Pyo...
13 years ago
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