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Footnotes in Gaza Paperback – 12 October 2010

by Joe Sacco (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars 167
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"Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own."--Los Angeles Times

Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot dead 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 the daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. As in Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde, his unique visual journalism renders a contested landscape in brilliant, meticulous detail. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, Footnotes in Gaza--Sacco's most ambitious work to date--transforms a critical conflict of our age into intimate and immediate experience.

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    432 pages
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    12 October 2010
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    19.69 x 2.54 x 26.54 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    9780805092776
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0805092776
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"[A] gripping, important book...Sacco will find readers for Footnotes in Gaza far into the future because of the unique format and style of his comic-book narrative. He stands alone as a reporter-cartoonist because his ability to tell a story through his art is combined with investigative reporting of the highest quality." --The New York Times Book Review

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Joe Sacco is the author of Footnotes in Gaza, for which he received an Eisner Award and the Ridenhour Book Prize, as well as Palestine, Journalism, Safe Area Gorazde (also an Eisner winner), and other books. His works have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared in Details, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and Harpers. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0805092773
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Metropolitan Books (12 October 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780805092776
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0805092776
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.69 x 2.54 x 26.54 cm
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Joe Sacco, one of the world's greatest cartoonists, is widely hailed as the creator of war reportage comics. He is the author of, among other books, Palestine, which received the American Book Award, and Safe Area: Gora�de, which won the Eisner Award and was named a New York Times notable book and Time magazine's best comic book of 2000. Hisbooks have been translated into fourteen languages and his comics reporting has appeared in Details, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Harper's and the Guardian. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Carlene Karmichael
5.0 out of 5 stars Insight
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I found this book gave me a lot more insight into the latest conflict between the Israli Government and the people of Palestine.

Joe Sacco has done a marvellous job in describing his time in Gaza, and doesn't seem to be "taking sides", as he questions the people of Gaza and their recollections and beliefs just as much as he seeks information into the reasons behind his visits. Inside the "comic book pages", we're exposed to the past horrors of repressive regimes and appreciate the far greater horrors being inflicted on the present-day Palestinian people.

Essential reading for anyone seeking to learn about the issues behind the current conflict. A powerful book.
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D. Mulcare
5.0 out of 5 stars Find out more about Gaza.
Reviewed in the United States on 3 December 2023
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Like Sacco’s Palestine this book provides a contrary view of the history and status of Gaza. Unlike the establishment view reflected in most MSM articles and news coverage, it brings up the unpleasant reality that Israel has long coveted the territory. Unlike most accounts of the relationship it addresses the massacre by Israeli troops of large numbers of Palestinians during the little-noted 1956 war. The 1956 war was undertaken by Israel in connivance with Britain and France. Look it up.

Unfortunately the book was published in 2009 and cannnot therefore cover the repeated deadly assaults on Gaza by Israel. The notion that the current genocidal attacks by Israel on Gaza, though prompted by a real atrocity, is unique fails to move me given the earlier thousands killed in previous “operations” like “Cast Lead.”

I hope readers will come away with a sense of Palestinian humanity. In the midst of this now near two-month long campaign campaign against the people of Gaza and its less-noted campaign against Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank.
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Jay
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute Must Read
Reviewed in Canada on 7 June 2021
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The world needs more investigative journalists like Joe Sacco.
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ragu
5.0 out of 5 stars Don't miss any of Joe Sacco's comics journalism
Reviewed in India on 8 November 2022
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This has more than 400 pages, yet I felt sad that the book ended. This book explores Palestine issue and especially what happened in 1956 in the gaza strip. Just like his other books (Palestine, Journalism, etc.), we continue to be shocked by inhumane nature of the powerful.

I wish more people do comics journalism. I consider it as more potent than written and TV journalism.
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Luca L.
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommend it
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 November 2021
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First time I read a Joe Sacco's work and his style definitely caught me. Drawings are amazingly detailed and the story is smoothly and interestingly readable. Recommend it.
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Ata H.
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully narrated and vividly illustrated
Reviewed in India on 28 September 2021
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A must read
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