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Safe Area Gorazde
Joe Sacco
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Description for Safe Area Gorazde
paperback. In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks to hang on to their town. This book presents a snapshot of these people. Num Pages: 236 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; 3JJPR; AKLC; DNJ; DSK; FXZ; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 192 x 16. Weight in Grams: 556.
In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which had teetered on the brink of obliteration for three and a half years.
Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks and severe privation to hang on to their town while the rest of Eastern Bosnia was brutally 'cleansed' of its non-Serb population. But as much as Safe Area Gorazde is an account of a terrible siege, it presents a snapshot of people who were slowly letting ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224080897
SKU
9780224080897
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco, one of the world’s foremost cartoonists, is widely hailed as the creator of war-reportage comics. He is the author of Palestine, The Fixer, Notes from a Defeatist and Footnotes in Gaza, all published by Jonathan Cape.
Reviews for Safe Area Gorazde
Sacco has produced a work that improbably manages to combine rare insight into what the war in Bosnia felt like on the ground with a mature and nuanced political and historical understanding of the conflict... Of the myriad books that have appeared about Bosnia, few have told the truth more bravely than Sacco. He is an immense talent, from whom ... Read more