Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicles is an exceptionally insightful graphic novel about contemporary Burma/Myanmar. This 272-page black-and-white comic explores a country known for using concealment and isolation as tools of social control. In Burma, scissor-wielding censors monitor the media, the de facto opposition leader has been under house arrest for years, insurgent-controlled areas are cut off from the outside world, and rumors serve as the most reliable source of information. Delisle is at his most compelling and endearing in this work.
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