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Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995 - Joe Sacco, Christopher Hitchens
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
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The winner of the 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album. Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage, emerging with this astonishing first-person... show more
The winner of the 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album. Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage, emerging with this astonishing first-person account.Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage. The book focuses on the Muslim-held enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the war. Sacco lived for a month in Gorazde, entering before the Muslims trapped inside had access to the outside world, electricity or running water. Safe Area Gorazde is Sacco's magnum opus and with it he is poised too become one of America's most noted journalists. The book features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens, political columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair.
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Format: Softcover
ISBN: 9781560974703 (1560974702)
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
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Chris Blocker
Chris Blocker rated it
4.0 Review: Safe Area Goražde
Safe Area Goražde gets four stars because it covers a war that doesn't get enough attention. It earns its four stars for giving voice to many who would not have otherwise been heard. It gets four stars for not shying away from the horror of the war. And it gets four stars for trying to educate a peo...
travelin
travelin rated it
5.0 Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
Slow going, not a beach read, but the shadowy landscapes and historical background are astonishing. It´s a nice balance of mundane daily life with a select few war stories from individual Bosnians. You´re left with the sense that war stories or the war were Joe Sacco´s main connection to the people ...
Boston Bibliophile
Boston Bibliophile rated it
5.0 Safe Area Gorazde : The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2010/06/graphic-novel-monday-safe-area-gorazde.html
Itinerant Librarian on Books
Itinerant Librarian on Books rated it
3.0 Safe Area Gorazde : The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
The only reason I gave this three stars is because this is a bit of hard reading. Not hard in difficulty, but hard in the subject matter. It can be a bit depressing at times, but aside from that, this is a very worthy reading. The story covers the Bosnian war during the nineties until the Dayton Acc...
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