Hostage

by Guy Delisle

Hardcover, 2017

Call number

GRAPH N DEL

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Publication

Drawn and Quarterly (2017), 436 pages

Description

"In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andr ?was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, Andr ?was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle ... recounts Andr'?s harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man's determination in the face of a hopeless situation."--

User reviews

LibraryThing member villemezbrown
Major kudos to Guy Delisle for making this story, which is essentially a man sitting alone in the corner of a room for hundreds of pages, so compelling and dramatic. I stayed up way too late in order to finish this ASAP. I have nothing but admiration for the endurance and courage of Christophe
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LibraryThing member questbird
An everyman accountant for an NGO is abducted by Chechens and held for weeks. Guy Delisle has drawn a comic of his experience; handcuffed to a radiator every day in the same drab four walls. The graphic novel captures the tedium, depression, anxiety as well as a few moments of enjoyment. This comic
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made me think of what I would have done in the same situation -- probably the same.
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LibraryThing member albertgoldfain
Gripping claustrophobic and expansive all at once.
LibraryThing member b.masonjudy
Hostage highlights Delisle's deft visual storytelling and care for the story of Christophe. The majority of that book is set in rooms and reading I quickly felt that I too was trapped, isolated, but also deeply moved by Christophe's resilience and the stark picture of his psychological struggle. By
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providing a variety of different panels and focusing on Christophe's hope, Delisle kept the story from feeling flat and for such a paucity of settings this story is eminently compelling.
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Pages

436

ISBN

1770462791 / 9781770462793
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