![]() ![]() ![]() The mill, which manufactures the paper used by, among others, the New York Times, is a huge, old-fashioned place. This time, however, the alien land is on his doorstep and he’s already fluent in its language. But even in this comic, the author appears before us in the guise we now know so well – a baffled outsider trying, and often failing, to navigate a culture that isn’t his own. A memoir of the time he spent working the night shift in a Quebec City paper mill as a student almost 40 years ago, it could not be less exotic if it tried. Outwardly, then, his new book, Factory Summers, looks like a dramatic change of pace. G uy Delisle is best known for his brilliant, offbeat travelogues ( Burma Chronicles, Pyongyang, Jerusalem) and, more recently, for Hostage, his extraordinary account of the kidnapping of Christophe André of Médecins Sans Frontières in Ingushetia in the north Caucasus in 1997. ![]()
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