Requiem for Gaza
$46.95
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
A profound and unflinching work of investigative journalism that presents the testimony of displaced Palestinians who are living through genocide, from the acclaimed author of Palestine
“In Requiem for Gaza, testimony meets truth’s arrow” — YANIS VAROUFAKIS
A profound and unflinching work of investigative journalism that presents the testimony of displaced Palestinians who are living through genocide, from the acclaimed author of Palestine.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787336780 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787336786 |
| Author: | Joe Sacco, Chris Hedges |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 820g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 190mm x 282mm |
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Critics Review
In Requiem for Gaza, testimony meets truth’s arrow. Hedges’ prose combines with Sacco’s lines to produce a requiem for the slaughtered, a mirror for the indifferent – Yanis Varoufakis
This bold work is a must-buy * Booklist, Starred Review *
A book that captures, in painful detail, the terrors being visited on Gaza * Kirkus *
Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco travelled to Cairo to record the stories of Palestinians who had managed to leave Gaza. One of them says: ‘We are not heroes. We are human beings.’ The people of Gaza tend to be seen as terrorists, statistics, online viewing, or symbols of heroic endurance. Hedges’ narrative and Sacco’s cartoons, while evoking and mourning a unique culture now destroyed, bring the reader as close as possible, in harrowingly graphic detail, to the reality of human struggle under displacement and genocide – Norman Finkelstein and Deborah Maccoby
Requiem for Gaza does not simply tell us stories about the genocide. It plunges us into a three-dimensional world of words and graphic images. We enter into the heart of the genocide itself. We are there, alongside the people facing danger and fleeing from it. We feel what the people in Gaza feel. We hold our breath when they approach death and struggle to avoid it. Requiem for Gaza depicts the tragedy of the Palestinians as it happens. Art becomes life. Words and images light the way to truth – Atef Abu Saif
Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco is one of the world’s greatest cartoonists and is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage comics. He is the author of 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.
Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times and other newspapers and is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and Losing Moses on the Freeway. A senior fellow at the National Institute, he also teaches in the Program for American Studies at Princeton University. He lives in Stockton, New Jersey.
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