Style and themes ĭelisle uses simple line drawings that are "plain and clean and casual without being sloppy". When it was released in English in April 2012, it was perhaps Delisle's most-anticipated book. While in Jerusalem, Delisle again worked primarily as a stay-at-home dad, taking care of their two young children while Nadège was working. He went to Shenzhen and Pyongyang for his work in animation, while he went to Burma to accompany his partner, Nadège, as she did her work for MSF. They are, in order of publication: Shenzhen, about his trip to Shenzhen, an economic hub of Southern China Pyongyang, about his stay in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea and Burma Chronicles, about his stay in Rangoon, the then-capital of Burma.
Guy Desile's book airs a certain neat plainness with his drawings.īefore Jerusalem, Delisle had previously written three other graphic novel travelogues. Delisle lived in Beit Hanina during his stay in the region. The book recounts Delisle's year-long trip to Jerusalem with his long-term spouse, Nadège, and their two young children. Jerusalem is a travelogue and memoir in which Delisle recounts his trip to Jerusalem, parts of Palestine and the West Bank, as well as within Israel, with his two young children and his long-term partner, Nadège, who went there to do administrative work for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, originally published in French as Chroniques de Jérusalem, is a 2011 graphic novel written and illustrated by Guy Delisle.
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