{"product_id":"footnotes-in-gaza-a-graphic-novel","title":"Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0805073477\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Sacco, Joe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front trash-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. On the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been bulldozed to rubble. Rafah is today and has always been a notorious flashpoint in this bitterest of conflicts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuried deep in the archives is one bloody incident in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians dead, shot 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 daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, alive with the voices of fugitives and schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs, \u003ci\u003eFootnotes in Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e captures the essence of a tragedy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs in \u003ci\u003ePalestine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSafe Area Gorade\u003c\/i\u003e, Saccos unique visual journalism has rendered a contested landscape in brilliant, meticulous detail. \u003ci\u003eFootnotes in Gaza\u003c\/i\u003e, his most ambitious work to date, transforms a critical conflict of our age into an intimate and immediate experience. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Miakarts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49681071538416,"sku":"NEW0805073477","price":190.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/ethereallybeautiful.com\/products\/footnotes-in-gaza-a-graphic-novel","provider":"Ethereally Beautiful","version":"1.0","type":"link"}