Well-done, but still mostly the story of a guy alone in a room for months.
I'm glad it exists though.
True story of Christophe Andre, who was working for MSF in the Caucasus, when he was kidnapped for ransom by armed men. The book is long, repetitive and tedious, just like Christopher's life during those months.
Scary. And fascinating.
You will have to pardon my snorting a little when I read 'How does one survive when all hope is lost?
In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andre was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region.
I was so touched by this story - Christophe Andre is an actual hero. It was really fast paced which is amazing considering the subject material??
Wonderfully, appropriately paced. An incredible story.
How the paradoxes multiply - a very fast read about an excruciatingly slow passage of time; a visual medium used to tell a story of which the main feature is that a guy is chained to a radiator - not much to see in that godforsaken room; and yes, the sophisticated art form of the graphic novel this time discloses the brutal human-reduced-to-a-chunk-of-maybe-valuable-maybe-not meat that is your grotesque fate if you're ever crazy enough to work for an international charity in a famously dangerous country. In this case it was Ingushetia.
Guy Delise's graphic novel Hostage (2016) is a return in style to his successful autobiographical graphic novels that drew on his experiences as an animator in Chin and North Korea as well as his experiences with his family in his wife's job as a member of Doctor's Without Frontiers. However, this time he is writing a biography of a Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe Andre was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region in 1997.
This was a quick, compelling read although not that much actually happens in it? There's a lot of just kind of the day to day drudgery of, well, being held hostage.
