Hostage

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HOW DOES ONE SURVIVE WHEN ALL HOPE IS LOST? 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 ( Pyongyang, Jerusalem, Shenzhen, Burma Chronicles ) 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. Marking a departure from the author’s celebrated first-person travelogues, Delisle tells the story through the perspective of the titular captive, who strives to keep his mind alert as desperation starts to set in. Working in a pared down style with muted colour washes, Delisle conveys the psychological effects of solitary confinement, compelling us to ask ourselves some difficult questions regarding the repercussions of negotiating with kidnappers and what it really means to be free. Thoughtful, intense, and moving, Hostage takes a profound look at what drives our will to survive in the darkest of moments.

THE TELEGRAPH, BLOOMBERG AND TIME 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' 'A taut, immersive chronicle of endurance' Time Magazine 'One of the most compelling and unflinching books you will ever read' Daily Telegraph On 7 October, 2023, Hamas terrorists stormed Kibbutz Be’eri, shattering the peaceful life Eli Sharabi had built with his British wife, Lianne, and their teenage daughters, Noiya and Yahel. Dragged barefoot out of his front door while his family watched in horror, Sharabi was plunged deep into the suffocating darkness of Gaza’s tunnels. As war raged above him, he endured a gruelling 491 days in captivity - all the while holding onto the hope that he would one day be reunited with his loved ones. In the first memoir by a released Israeli hostage, and the fastest-selling book in Israel’s history, Sharabi offers a searing firsthand account of survival under unimaginable conditions - starvation, isolation, physical beatings, and psychological abuse at the hands of his captors. Eli Sharabi’s story is one of hunger and heartache, of physical pain, longing, loneliness and a helplessness that threatens to destroy the soul. But it is also a story of strength, of resilience, and of the human spirit’s refusal to surrender. It is about the camaraderie forged in captivity, the quiet power of faith, and one man’s unrelenting decision to choose life, time and time again. Reminiscent of Elie Wiesel’s Night , Hostage is a profound witness to history, so that it shall be neither forgotten nor erased.

THE TELEGRAPH, BLOOMBERG AND TIME 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' 'A taut, immersive chronicle of endurance' Time Magazine 'Oneof the most compelling and unflinching books you will ever read' Daily Telegraph On 7 October, 2023, Hamas terrorists stormed Kibbutz Be’eri, shattering the peaceful life Eli Sharabi had built with his British wife, Lianne, and their teenage daughters, Noiya and Yahel. Dragged barefoot out of his front door while his family watched in horror, Sharabi was plunged deep into the suffocating darkness of Gaza’s tunnels. As war raged above him, he endured a gruelling 491 days in captivity - all the while holding onto the hope that he would one day be reunited with his loved ones. In the first memoir by a released Israeli hostage, and the fastest-selling book in Israel’s history, Sharabi offers a searing firsthand account of survival under unimaginable conditions - starvation, isolation, physical beatings, and psychological abuse at the hands of his captors. Eli Sharabi’s story is one of hunger and heartache, of physical pain, longing, loneliness and a helplessness that threatens to destroy the soul. But it is also a story of strength, of resilience, and of the human spirit’s refusal to surrender. It is about the camaraderie forged in captivity, the quiet power of faith, and one man’s unrelenting decision to choose life, time and time again. Reminiscent of Elie Wiesel’s Night , Hostage is a profound witness to history, so that it shall be neither forgotten nor erased.

”Hostage” er Guy Delisles grafisknovelle-fortolkning af Christophe Andrés grufulde tre måneder som gidsel i Kaukasus i 1997. Midt om natten i 1997 bliver Christophe André kidnappet af bevæbnede mænd og ført til et ukendt sted i Kaukasus-regionen. I tre måneder var han holdt fanget i håndjern alene med meget lidt mad og vand og næsten ingen kontakt til verden udenfor. 20 år senere fortæller den prisvindende tegner Guy Delisle hans opsigtsvækkende historie. ”Hostage” genfortæller historien om en mands kamp mod den lammende desperation i en håbløs situation. Delisle skildrer med psykologisk indsigt den overraskende største prøvelse - kampen for ikke at miste fatningen i fuldstændig isolation. ”Hostage” er en tankevækkende, intens og rørende historie om menneskets vilje til overlevelse, selv når alt håb synes ude.