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Guy Delisle's Burma Chronicles offers a quietly compelling window into life under military rule, rendered in his distinctive minimalist line work. The cover sets the tone perfectly: a casually dressed figure pushes a baby stroller past a guarded compound where two armed soldiers keep watch beneath a corrugated-roof booth, lush tropical foliage looming behind the wall — everyday domesticity bumping up against an authoritarian reality. Published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2008, this graphic memoir is an understated, observant portrait of a place most readers will never see firsthand.