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Short Description for PalestineAims to capture the heart of the Palestinian experience in image.
Full description- Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Published: 01 November 2009
- Format: Paperback 296 pages
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- Categories: Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-fiction | Middle Eastern History | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
- ISBN 13: 9780224069823 ISBN 10: 0224069829
- Sales rank: 8,086
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Palestine
Joe Sacco's Palestine is one of the greatest "comic" books of recent years. A wonderful, humane, scathing, searching investigation into -- and contemplation on -- the Palestine-Israel conflict it shows (like Art Spiegelman's superb Maus stories with which it has much in common) that comics can convey issues of the upmost human importance at a level of fully engaged (and engaging) intelligence.
Palestine documents Sacco's two-month stay in various parts of the Occupied Territories in the early 1990s. Sadly, what Sacco saw there and shows us so brilliantly here remains as accurate today as it did almost two decades ago: the Palestinian people live in terrible, tragic conditions and their plight is massively misunderstood.
Palestine tells the stories of several individuals and families who have suffered during the first intifada. Sacco gives us a sympathetic historical and cultural understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and readers who know little about the area's history could do no better than start here.
A comic for grown-ups about a subject of tremendous importance for the peace of the whole world. Sacco is a great writer and an amazing communicator, and this is a must-read book.
by Mark Thwaite
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