{"id":862,"date":"2008-11-01T17:19:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T21:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=862"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:00:49","slug":"the-burma-chronicles-by-guy-delisle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-burma-chronicles-by-guy-delisle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Burma-Chronicles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28244\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Burma-Chronicles.jpg\" alt=\"Burma Chronicles\" width=\"1083\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Burma-Chronicles.jpg 1083w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Burma-Chronicles-577x800.jpg 577w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/11\/Burma-Chronicles-800x1108.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1083px) 100vw, 1083px\" \/><\/a>With amazingly effective simplicity, artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guydelisle.com\/english\/index_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Guy Delisle<\/a>\u00a0takes you to Burma through an ex-pat\u2019s perspective. He arrives with his wife, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">M\u00e9decins San Fronti\u00e8res<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Doctors Without Borders<\/a>)\u00a0aid worker, shortly after the devastating 2004 tsunami, who has a real job to go to. Meanwhile, Delisle is in charge of their young son, and together they explore their new surroundings, both mundane (the heat!) and enraging (the Burmese regime).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: \u201cTBR\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2008,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, November\/December 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-863\" title=\"burma-chronicles\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/burma-chronicles.jpg\" alt=\"burma-chronicles\" width=\"128\" height=\"177\" \/>With amazingly effective simplicity, artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guydelisle.com\/english\/index_en.html\" target=\"_blank\">Guy Delisle<\/a>\u00a0takes you to Burma through an ex-pat\u2019s perspective. He arrives with his wife, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e9decins San Fronti\u00e8res<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Doctors Without Borders<\/a>)\u00a0aid worker, shortly after the devastating 2004 tsunami, who has a real job to go to. Meanwhile, Delisle is in charge of their young son, and together they explore their new surroundings, both mundane (the heat!) and enraging (the Burmese regime).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: \u201cTBR\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2008,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, November\/December 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,274,73,107,726,20,6535,136,66],"tags":[1968,6608,3552,22,341,59,10,189,11,927,928,28],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-canadian","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-memoir","category-myanmarese-burmese","category-nonfiction","category-repost","category-southeast-asian","category-translation","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-burma-chronicles","tag-civil-rights","tag-colonialism","tag-cultural-exploration","tag-family","tag-father-son-relationship","tag-friendship","tag-guy-delisle","tag-helge-dascher","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-burma-chronicles-by-guy-delisle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With amazingly effective simplicity, artist Guy Delisle\u00a0takes you to Burma through an ex-pat\u2019s perspective. 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