by Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco delivers a scathing piece of comic-journalism with [b:Palestine|769712|Palestine|Joe Sacco|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327884409s/769712.jpg|755771]. The Arab side of the story is fully ignored by the Western media since, well, the beginning of the conflict.The treatment inflicted upon t...
3.5 stars. A good book if you know very little on the Arab-Israeli conflict. It's very, very basic.
Sacco's sardonic voice put me off at first but the relentless stories are hard to ignore, and the last story (A Boy in the Rain) is just superb. It really manages to synthesize an unsythesizable (not a word) situation. No wonder that Sacco can only do it when he's not in the thick of refugee camps. ...
I knew something about Joe Sacco and already put this book into my wishlist, but my interest for this graphic novel has grown up thanks to something I recently experienced.I've had the opportunity of working as a live translator for theatre. The company I was translating for came to Italy from Pales...
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