第111天：人质手记

Title: 第111天：人质手记

A doctor's 111 days as a terrorist hostage A 400-page "live broadcast" Based on a true story How difficult is it to maintain sanity and dignity on the brink of a mental breakdown?

[Editor's Recommendation] ?‍⚕️ Based on a true story, the book presents the complete story of a member of the Doctors Without Borders organization who was illegally abducted by Chechen militants. Christopher, a member of the organization serving in Ingushetia, Russia, was taken hostage on July 1, 1997. He was imprisoned in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, while the militants demanded one million dollars from the French government. Christopher persisted in the harsh living environment for nearly three months and finally escaped the clutches of terrorism on the 111th day, eventually making his way back home. The author personally interviewed the people involved and recorded Christopher's 111-day captivity in the first person with authenticity.

? 400 pages of "live broadcast", 111 days of suffocation. Unlike general non-fiction, the book uses the form of a diary from a witness to outline Christopher's 111 days from kidnapping to eventual escape, with simple composition, plain tone and full of secret inner monologue, like a live broadcast from a camera set up in a prison cell.

? Losing freedom, human rights, hope, keeping sanity and dignity on the brink of a mental breakdown. Locked to an iron ring every day, with only a bowl of unsalted soup and occasionally a small bucket of water to wash, every toilet visit without any privacy, with only walls, mattresses, locks in sight... To maintain his precarious sanity, Christopher memorized dates, judged time by the movement of light and shadow, recited history books to himself, and identified unusual sounds. He tells himself not to think too much, to hold onto hope, to not go crazy, and to preserve his dignity in front of his captors. If the situation were reversed, even a slight insight into this kind of severe torture and testing is enough to make one shudder.

? The road home is like an odyssey, and Christopher is a battered Odysseus. To wait or to run? To endure or resist? The difficult choice never left Christopher, which was equivalent to choosing between life and death for someone in an all-powerful disadvantage. As the 111th day approached, with a lapse of guard, Christopher bravely chose to escape. But it was far from enough to just get out of prison - facing the powerful local terrorist forces, his escape route was still full of dangers.

[Summary] This is a picture book adapted from a true story. In the early hours of July 1, 1997, while Christopher Andre was engaged in humanitarian activities in the Republic of Ingushetia, Russia, he was kidnapped by Chechen terrorists. With limited physical activity, he could only infer his circumstances and the rescue efforts of his companions by sound and small changes in his surroundings. Although his psyche was almost on the verge of breakdown several times, Christopher never lost hope nor stopped thinking. Finally, he escaped from the kidnappers on the 111th day of his captivity. Through the artistry and storytelling skills of Delisle, this book presents a real Christopher in the first-person perspective.

[Media Reviews] Delisle's 400 pages of graphics and text capture the essence of the confined space of the prisoner. His delicacy, sense of rhythm, and expression of time are stunning. -Amazon France book review

Christopher is chained to an iron ring day after day, and the artistic expression Delisle employs to describe this highly repetitive scene captures the reader and causes them to lose their own freedom for several hours of reading, just like Christopher. -Bdmétrique French website book review

"The 111th Day: A Hostage Diary" uses the protagonist's monologue to advance the plot, recreating Christopher's psychological activity as a hostage and giving the story an appropriate sense of suspense. This is a work of European comics that cannot be ignored in the last 20 years. -Babelio French website book review

[Awards] Best Author Award for the 2017 Joshua's Prize in France Finalist for the 2017 FNAC Comic Book Prize in France

作者简介

盖·德利斯勒1966年出生于加拿大，毕业于多伦多谢尔丹动画学院。曾在加拿大、德国、法国、中国等地的动画制作公司工作。由于妻子服务于无国界医生组织，他和孩子也经常满世界跑，曾居住于缅甸、耶路撒冷等国家和地区。在1999年的作品《艾琳与她们的故事》中，他犀利幽默的风格初现锋芒。后因自身游历世界的经历，开始创作半自传体的旅行报道漫画。他的漫画作品《缅甸小日子》《第111天：人质手记》《耶路撒冷》深受读者喜爱，其中《耶路撒冷》更获得2012年法国安古兰国际漫画节蕞佳漫画奖。