Author: Joe Sacco
Translator: Gyu-jin Ham
Publisher: Geulnon Grimbat
320 pages | 271*180mm
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| >>>This book is written in Korean. |
About This Book
Fantagraphics Books is pleased to present, for the first time, a
single-volume collection of this 288-page landmark of journalism and the
artform of comics. Interest in Sacoo has never been higher than with the
release of his critically acclaimed book, Safe Area Gorazde.
Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West
Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100
interviews with Palestinians and Jews), Palestine was the first major
comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, who has
often been called the first comic book journalist.
Sacco's insightful reportage takes place at the front lines, where busy
marketplaces are spoiled by shootings and tear gas, soldiers beat
civilians with reckless abandon, and roadblocks go up before reporters
can leave. Sacco interviewed and encountered prisoners, refugees,
protesters, wounded children, farmers who had lost their land, and
families who had been torn apart by the Palestinian conflict.
In 1996, the Before Columbus Foundation awarded Palestine the
seventeenth annual American Book Award, stating that the author should
be recognized for his "outstanding contribution to American literature,"
while his publisher, Fantagraphics, is "to be honored for their
commitment to quality and their willingness to take risks that accompany
publishing outstanding books and authors that may not prove
'cost-effective' in the short run."
This new edition of Palestine also features a new introduction from
renowned author, critic, and historian Edward Said, author of Peace and
Its Discontents and The Question of Palestine and one of the world's
most respected authorities on the Middle Eastern conflict.
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