It isn't that I'm not fascinated by other people's private lives, (I'm as intrusive as the next person, maybe more), but in this instance I find it refreshing to read an independent comic book which is deeply personal and yet totally involved with the world.

They live together, they share things, but I don't have to read about it anything beyond the most basic communications between himself and his wife. The way he writes about his life with his family is very deliberate. While the book is similarly delightful, a relaxed, deliberate diary of the author's personal life and direct experiences of the country he is in with the addition of his family make this a distinctly different experience. Not only that, but this time he has a newborn baby to look after too. Unlike his trip to Pyongyang (where he went to work) this time he follows his wife, who is working with Doctors without Borders. Like his previous work Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, it gives insight into many aspects of Delisle's daily life, as well as his observations about the politics and deprivation of Burma (officially called the Union of Myanmar).

This simple little diary/travelogue of a book charts the artist's living (and working) experiences in a foreign country. Usually a fast reader, I could excuse myself because I was reading a few different things at once, but if I'm completely honest I have to admit that I was hoarding it, keeping this strangely mellow, deep book for the late nights to comfort and enrich. After a couple of months I finally finished reading Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicles.

Burma chronicles