![]() ![]() But in the end, this is of no consequence. Of troubled Chechnya and its people we see almost nothing until the book’s final pages, when André makes a daring escape. ![]() The days unfold monotonously, punctuated only by bowls of thin soup and the occasional trip to the bathroom. Somehow, though, Guy Delisle – the French-Canadian artist who is best known for such award-winning travelogues as Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea and Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City – has turned André’s account of his weeks of hell into a gripping visual narrative. This is, to say the least, extremely challenging territory for a cartoonist. The victim of a kidnapping, he would spend the next three months alone in a dark room, handcuffed to a radiator. But when they bundled him into a car and drove him over the border into Chechnya, he realised things were perhaps more serious than he had at first believed. At first, he thought they’d come to raid the NGO’s safe: the next day was pay day and it was bulging with cash. I n 1997, Christophe André, a young Frenchman who was working as an administrator for Médecins Sans Frontières in Ingushetia in the north Caucasus, was woken in the middle of the night by a gang of armed men. ![]()
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