Footnotes in Gaza - Softcover

Sacco, Joe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805092773 ISBN 13: 9780805092776

Publisher: Metropolitan Books, 2010

Synopsis

"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

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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Review:

"[A] gripping, important book...Sacco will find readers for Footnotes in Gaza far into the future because of the unique format and style of his comic-book narrative. He stands alone as a reporter-cartoonist because his ability to tell a story through his art is combined with investigative reporting of the highest quality." --The New York Times Book Review

Book Description:

From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places.

About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0805092773
• ISBN 13: 9780805092776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432