Shenzhen
A Travelogue From China
Formats & editions
- Published: 4 May 2017
- ISBN: 9781473547162
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 152
Like last year's Pyongyang, about his similar stint in North Korea, Shenzhen is a casual, dryly witty series of observations... Delisle's got an animator's eye for quirks of motion, analyzing the arc of a public fountain's water and the way street vendors make popcorn in a pressure cooker. The best artwork in the book is his impressionistic, unnarrated pen-and-ink-wash drawings of Shenzhen's drab buildings and billboards, but Delisle's keen awareness of how and why he can't connect to the city makes for a rarity: a thoroughly engaging memoir of being bored to distraction.
Douglas Wolk, New York Times Book Review