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Footnotes in Gaza

Footnotes in Gaza

Sacco, Joe

Paperback

General Graphic NovelsIsrael & Palestine History

Publisher Price: $40.00

ISBN10: 0805092773
ISBN13: 9780805092776
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: Oct 12 2010
Pages: 432
Weight: 2.32
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.70 Depth: 10.52
Language: English
Awards: Oregon Book Awards

Ridenhour Book Prize Winner
Eisner Award Winner for Nonfiction

Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own.--Los Angeles Times

From one of the leading cartoonists of our time comes an ambitious and timely historical excavation.

Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah--cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake--reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war.

In a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in the daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. As in Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, his unique visual journalism renders a contested landscape in brilliant, meticulous detail. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, Footnotes in Gaza--Sacco's most ambitious work to date--transforms a critical conflict of our age into intimate and immediate experience.

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