![]() ![]() ![]() Hostage was translated from French to English by Helge Dascher. ( From Drawn & Quarterly)ġ0 Canadian comic books and graphic novels you should be reading right now Close to 20 years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle ( Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Burma Chronicles) recounts André's harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man's determination in the face of a hopeless situation. 1997, Christophe Andr, a young Frenchman who was working as an administrator for Mdecins Sans Frontires in Ingushetia in the north Caucasus. This true story of a man’s kidnapping in Chechnya confirms Guy Delisle’s position as one of the greatest modern cartoonists. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Guy Delisle’s Hostage is the Guardian graphic novel of the month. In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. ![]() How does one survive when all hope is lost? ![]()
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