Footnotes in Gaza
$74.89
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2019
Summary
From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places.
Rafah, a town at the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front rubbish-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. Situated on the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been reduced to rubble. Rafah is today and has always been a notorious flashpoint in this most bitter of conflic…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787332010 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787332012 |
| Author: | Joe Sacco |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 1.04kg |
| Dimensions: | 266mm x 194mm x 24mm |
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Sacco has produced a series of extraordinary comic books that convey, with unusual attentiveness to the details of everyday life, the impact that war has on civilians
Sacco has produced a series of extraordinary comic books that convey, with unusual attentiveness to the details of everyday life, the impact that war has on civilians * Boston Globe *
Sacco is Art Spiegelman’s most talented artistic descendant… [He] is tipped to win the comics world a second Pulitzer * The Economist *
There is virtually no precedent for what he does… Sacco is legitimately unique * The New York Review of Books *
Joe Sacco’s brilliant, excruciating books of war reportage are potent territory… He shows how much that is crucial to our lives a book can hold – Margo Jefferson * The New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco, one of the world’s greatest cartoonists, is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage comics. He is the author of, among other books, Palestine, which received the American Book Award, and Safe Area- Gorazde, which won the Eisner Award and was named a New York Times notable book and Time magazine’s best comic book of 2000. His books have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared in Details, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Harper’s and the Guardian. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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