Full name: Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City

Author: Guy Delisle Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: Amazon LibraryThing Goodreads ISBNs: 9781770460713 1770460713

Acclaimed graphic memoirist Guy Delisle returns with his strongest work yet—a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in the Holy City.Guy Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of contemporary Jerusalem, utilizing the classic stranger in a strange land point of view that made his Pyongyang, Shenzhen, and Burma chronicles required reading for understanding what daily life is like in cities few are able to travel to. In Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, Delisle explores the complexities of a city that represents so much to so many. He eloquently examines the impact of the conflict on the lives of people on both sides of the wall while drolly recounting the quotidian: checkpoints, traffic jams, and holidays.When observing the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim populations that call Jerusalem home, Delisle’s drawn line is both sensitive and fair, assuming nothing and drawing everything. Jerusalem showcases once more Delisle’s mastery of the travelogue. Similar books: How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less by Sarah Glidden Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me by Harvey Pekar An Age of License by Lucy Knisley Why I Killed Peter by Alfred Palestine by Joe Sacco Pyongyang by Guy Delisle Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle Funny Misshapen Body by Jeffrey Brown Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan Good Eggs by Phoebe Potts Displacement by Lucy Knisley Shenzhen by Guy Delisle Scenes from an Impending Marriage by Adrian Tomine Lucky by Gabrielle Bell The Quitter by Harvey Pekar