A Few Perfect Hours And Other Stories From Southeast Asia And Central Europe [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Neufeld, Josh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1891867792 ISBN 13: 9781891867798

Verlag: Alternative Comics, 2004

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Book by Josh Neufeld

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"Neufeld is drawn to the trip's potential for danger, and what might ordinarily be a merely entertaining anecdote becomes the occasion for lucid, unsparing self-examination. Neufeld draws himself as a slightly neurotic caricature, and his backgrounds show how salient details can be reduced to a few clear lines. He has an appealingly clean visual style and uses it to highlight the differences between his tourist self and his surroundings." -- Publishers Weekly "Older teens contemplating their own backpacking adventures may be fascinated, especially if they also dream of traveling with close companions." - Ray Olson, Booklist

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Autobiographical cartoonist Josh Neufeld takes us on a dramatic tour of places as exotic and different as Thailand, the former Yugoslavia, and New York City. Highlights include Neufeld and traveling companion Sari Wilson on a volunteer expedition to an organic farm in Malaysia, their stint as extras in a Chinese-language Singaporean soap opera, a train trip through war-torn Serbia, and a near-disastrous cave adventure in Thailand. With gentle humor and a keen eye for the revelatory detail, Neufeld explores religion and spirituality, politics and personalities, and the mysteries of everyday life. His stories reflect the backpacker's conflicted feelings: a yearning for adventure mixed with homesickness and a sense of disconnection, trapped in a reality constantly in flux. In the collection's title story, Neufeld illustrates how the tensions and fears involved in travel through a strange country are dispelled by a Thai monk's blessing. In "On a Mission," Neufeld contrasts the viewpoints of American Baptist missionaries in northern Thailand with the traditions of a Buddhist festival. And in "Cremations, Cubicles & Cant," Neufeld juxtaposes his grandmother's Jewish funeral with a Hindu cremation ceremony he witnessed on Bali.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: Alternative Comics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1891867792
• ISBN 13: 9781891867798
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128