Hostage

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"In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle ... recounts André's harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man's determin…

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Title Statements

Full title :Hostage / Guy Delisle ; translated by Helge Dascher.

Summary

"In the middle of the night in 1997, Doctors Without Borders administrator Christophe André was kidnapped by armed men and taken away to an unknown destination in the Caucasus region. For three months, André was kept handcuffed in solitary confinement, with little to survive on and almost no contact with the outside world. Close to twenty years later, award-winning cartoonist Guy Delisle ... recounts André's harrowing experience in Hostage, a book that attests to the power of one man's determination in the face of a hopeless situation."--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2017
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Jonathan Cape
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2017

Notes

Translation of: S'enfuir: récit d'un otage.

The Physical Object

Description:432 pages : : chiefly colour illustrations, colour map ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781911214441, 1911214446
oclc:ocn993249103
LC Classification:PN6734.D44
Dewey Decimal:364.15/4092

Subjects

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