Palestine
Joe Sacco
  • Published: 3 February 2003
  • ISBN: 9780224069823
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 296
  • RRP: $45.00

Palestine

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The landmark work of comics journalism - by the author of Safe Area: Gorazde.

A powerful graphic novel, capturing the heart of day-to-day life in occupied Palestine.

In late 1991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes.

Upon returning to the United States he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combines the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore this complex, emotionally weighty situation. He captures the heart of the Palestinian experience in image after unforgettable image, with great insight and remarkable humour.

The nine-issue comics series won a l996 American Book Award. It is now published for the first time in one volume, befitting its status as one of the great classics of graphic non-fiction.

‘The bar is set extremely high when it comes to graphic books and the Middle East: one thinks of Joe Sacco's Palestine' Guy Delise

‘Palestine is utterly compelling, and as affecting as the work of any war photographer or poet’ Varsity
  • Published: 3 February 2003
  • ISBN: 9780224069823
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 296
  • RRP: $45.00
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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: Goražde, 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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Bumf
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Footnotes in Gaza
Safe Area Gorazde
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Praise for Palestine

A political and aesthetic work of extraordinary originality, quite unlike any other in the long, often turgid and hopelessly twisted debates that have occupied Palestinians, Israelis, and their respective supporters... With the exception of one or two novelists and poets, no one has ever rendered this terrible state of affairs better than Joe Sacco

Edward Said

The bar is set extremely high when it comes to graphic books and the Middle East: one thinks of Joe Sacco's Palestine

Observer

Palestine is a unique take on the Isreali/Palestinian conflict… The illustrator/reporter provides a unique perspective: there is an intimacy to Sacco’s interviews that cannot be translated into photography and text. His drawings make his subjects relatable to in a way that I think is difficult to achieve with a photograph.

Bleeding Cool

Palestine is utterly compelling, and as affecting as the work of any war photographer or poet.

Annie Forbes, Varsity
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