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Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City [Hardcover]

Guy Delisle (Author), Helge Dascher (Translator)
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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Publication Date: 24 April 2012

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 other books, 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.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly (24 April 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1770460713
  • ISBN-13: 978-1770460713
  • Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 16.4 x 3.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 328,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A wonderfully candid book, which makes the situation's hideously insoluble complexities more vividly understandable than anything else I have encountered." (Rupert Christiansen Daily Telegraph)

"My other favourite graphic book of the year... makes breathtakingly light work of one of the world's most complex political situations." (Rachel Cooke Observer)

"His [Delisle's] quizzical, bemused approach comes as a breath of fresh air on a topic fraught with political division.the utterly distinctive drawings are as enchanting as ever." (Tim Martin Telegraph)

"Quietly living his life and observing what goes on around him, Delisle captures the craziness, beauty and tragedy of the Israel-Palestine conundrum." (Keith Kahn-Harris Jewish Chronicle)

"Jerusalem is Delisle's biggest and most accomplished work to date. Without Delisle we might never learn what it's actually like to live in a place like this, or get a realistic idea of the people we would meet if we did. He's clear-eyed, good-hearted, he takes what he sees and he turns it into art." (Rev’d Hayley Campbell New Statesman) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Acclaimed graphic memoirist Guy Delisle returns with his strongest work yet - a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in the Holy City. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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4.6 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Delisle pulls it off again 20 May 2012
By F Henwood TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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We know that part of Delisle's appeal is his choice of settings: the reclusive dictatorships of Burma and North Korea make great copy. Delisle is able to offer a first-hand perspective on countries from which it is all but impossible to derive any impression about what daily life must be actually like, and he is able to do this with a deceptively simple drawing style.

But Israel/Palestine is different kettle of fish. This is a conflict continually under the media glare. Millions of pages have been written documenting every detail of the conflict in the `holy land'. Can Delisle offer anything new?

The answer is that yes, he can. Delisle's strengths lie in more than the fact that he can capitalise on the fact that he has lived and worked in little-known places. His detached, ironical but sympathetic style is well suited to navigating the tortured nuances of the seemingly never-ending conflict in the so-called holy land.

The narrative switches between wider events and his experience of humdrum domestica and writer's block but the latter is not overdone. It stays humorous without becoming self-indulgent or flippant. He also includes narratives and testimonies of eyewitnesses to events he does not see first-hand but are concurrent with his stay (such Israel's assault on Gaza, Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 and January 2009). He does not pretend to offer any new insights into the conflict. What he is able to offer is a cross-section of reality, as he has in his previous books. He gives an impression of what it is like to experience this reality first hand.His is the eye that picks out the unexpected: like the Arab-Israeli citizen living in one of the West Bank's illegal settlements, quipping that the settlements are being resettled from within by Arab-Israelis.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant 15 Sep 2012
By Andrew Jones
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A great book, which through the atmospheric illustrations and well-constructed stories gives an entertaining and thought-provoking account of life in Jerusalem and the West Bank (as well as the wider background of Israel/Palestine conflict).

I have visited most of the towns mentioned in the book and found Guy Deslisle's drawings incredibly effective at capturing both the look and atmosphere of those locations. They brought back strong memories and stirred my emotions, reigniting the sense of disbelief and outrage that I felt when there, particularly in Hebron and regarding the checkpoints and the wall.

Some may find that the author leans too far politically in one direction, but in my view his mindset is a natural consequence of spending time in the area. I doubt there are too many westerners in east Jerusalem or the West Bank who disagree with him.

An interesting and well-crafted book about a fascinating part of the world.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Can't we all just get along? 13 May 2012
By Noel TOP 50 REVIEWER
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Guy Delisle travels to Jerusalem with his partner and their two kids for a year. His partner is an administrator for "Doctors Without Borders" and Delisle spends the year working on his comics, looking after the kids, and exploring/trying to understand the city of Jerusalem and its peoples.

If you've read Delisle's work before you'll know he goes to hard-to-reach places and reports on his time there (North Korea, China, Burma) and that the resulting travelogues are always entertaining and enlightening - just like this latest book.

The book isn't a polemic nor is it meant to explain the region or the history, it's really just a memoir/travelogue of his time there. So there is equal parts of his time describing his everyday duties looking after the kids and going to parties, making friends, as much as there is encountering and observing violence from bombings in Gaza, to the numerous checkpoints and outright chaos of this area.

The reader gets to see how bizarre Jerusalem is. The city is divided into Christian quarters, Jewish quarters, and Muslim quarters, where literally one side of the street a woman can wear what she likes and on the other she must be covered head to foot. The constant military presence and day to day reminders of violence - everyone carries a gun, not just soldiers. The shrillness of the piercing calls to prayer echo throughout the city whether you are religious or not. The ridiculously high number of checkpoints everywhere, the constant traffic jams...

As an atheist myself, it's hard to believe that this troubled region is because of one group believing one thing over another leading to literally millennia of conflict. As such, it's incredibly shocking how people will be so petty over everything.... Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific again from Guy 30 April 2012
By J. G. Gent
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What a terrific few hours spent reading and absorbing Guy's latest travelogue.

Simply put, buy it and enjoy it...the nuances and sidebar comments are worth the effort on their own.

Excellent.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening, but 16 Jun 2013
By C. W. Robbins
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While this book says little that is really new about the Israeli-Palestinian imbroglio, the facts, impressions and insights are engagingly presented by an experienced and intrepid traveller. I learnt a good deal about some of the details of life for both Israelis and Palestinians. But he did not get under the skin of those Israelis who feel embattled and threatened, who find deep within themselves a sense of the insecurity of the Jewish people since AD 70. Perhaps he didn't meet any he could talk to.

If Delisle is a faux naïf, no matter. The technique works reasonably well.

But the book has two drawbacks:
1.although he CAN draw well for other contexts, Delisle adopts a shorthand draughtsmanship which didn't appeal at all to me. His treatment of faces - and particularly eyes and mouths - makes people look either expressionless or positively ugly. I was sorry to see his partner depicted in this way. Delisle uses dialogue to express character but couldn't he also draw people with that aim in mind? He misses golden opportunities: why no large scale drawing of the model presented to Sultan Selim I?
2. The translator has rendered Delisle's French is a curious N American demotic which - to my ears at least - made Delisle seem more flippant than he was. At any rate, the result is not verbally stylish.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, poignant and educational
I pick this up on a whim after deciding to explore travelogues in comic form (an underrepresented genre I was surprised to find). Read more
Published 2 months ago by Big Ro
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3.0 out of 5 stars Less funny than previous work, but still pretty good!
Less funny than previous works (I've read Bhurma, Shenzen and Pyongyang - maybe more "exotic" and surprising), but still pretty good!
Published 4 months ago by J. Simues
5.0 out of 5 stars Pilgrimage of a present
What do you buy the guy who has everything? Apparently this.
Bought for my Dad as a birthday present this went down very well, he had his head stuck in it for hours.
Published 6 months ago by Ms. Elspeth Griffin
5.0 out of 5 stars Guy Delisle's best one so far
This is by far the best book of Guy Delisle has made so far, i just loved it. The drawings are really well done and the book is as usual very thought provoking and funny.
Published 7 months ago by eagle9eye
5.0 out of 5 stars his best book to date
Fantastic book! Well done Guy Delisle! This is his best book to date, get it and get to (finally) understand just what the hell's going down in Israel. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Blik Snyman
5.0 out of 5 stars Just as good as the rest
I love Delisles work and this next book does not disappoint. His books are a great intro for graphic novels if you are wanting to encourage a friend.
Published 9 months ago by Aftiti
5.0 out of 5 stars Genius
I've bought my first book a month ago (the one about North Korea). Two weeks later I had already bought and read all of his books. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Gus
3.0 out of 5 stars OK
Delise has made his own genere. He draws out his daylilife in exotic places. This time he's a homewife in Jerusalem. Read more
Published 12 months ago by P. Rö
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