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carolinajfonseca's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
unladylike's review against another edition
1.0
I suppose it's great that folks are taking comics more seriously and all, but as far as stories go, I found this one almost unbearably boring. I wanted to like it, but it just always felt awkward, like conversations between people with a major language barrier, grasping onto tidbits of empathy and cultural knowledge without ever really connecting.
iceberg0's review against another edition
4.0
This is a really remarkable piece of work. It is a photographer's memoir of a mid 80's trip into Afghanistan told through his pictures and illustrated by a cartoonist. The photographs are compelling and the writing is stark and simple, matching the landscape and the period. Very, very interesting. Read it.
lisawhelpley's review against another edition
1.0
Not my cup of tea. Blending of graphic novel and photographs is an interesting concept, however.
bluestarfish's review against another edition
5.0
Didier Lefèvre is the photographer of the title in this book. In 1986 he joined a MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) trip into Afghanistan to visit two medical stations in this country at war. His job was to take photos of the trip and this book uses those pictures woven in with the words and drawings of Lefèvre's friend Emmanuel Guibert to tell the story of this epic journey. The westerners have to be smuggled over the border into Afghanistan where they join a caravan for safety and walk for a month to the clinics. There are some gorgeous pictures in this book of landscapes and people and the events, and the drawings work really well too.
jaimcham's review against another edition
5.0
photojournalism + graphic novel + real-life account of a humanitarian mission in Afghanistan in the 1980s = brilliant.
ms_library's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-paced
3.5