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by Joe Sacco (Author), Edward W. Said (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Fantagraphics (1 April 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 156097432X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1560974321
  • Product Dimensions: 27.6 x 18.3 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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A single volume collection of the landmark novel by Joe Sacco, author of Safe Area Goradze. Palestine was his first major comic work of political and historical non-fiction, and was based on several months research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews. With a foreword by Edward Said, his work has often been favourably compared to Maus, for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically sensitive subject matter within the confines of the comic book medium.

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Joe Sacco was born in Malta and lives in Queens, New York. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in journalism. As well as the award-winning Palestine, his other book, Safe Area: Gorazde, about his time in Bosnia, won the Will Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel in 2001. In 2001 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on his next project. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A corner stone in comic book journalism., 9 Feb 2005
This review is from: Palestine (Paperback)
Bearing in mind that no documentary, especially not on war, is ever going to be objective and thus that any reader's reaction is bound to be subjective, this work is going to stir people's feelings.
Joe Sacco's work is unique in that unlike most journalists, not only has he chosen to use comics/graphic novels as a medium but also he has a much less superficial way of working. This book and the one on Sarajevo offer a real insight on the plight of people's life in a war stricken zone. The fact that the author does not restrict himself to citing historic facts but also goes in to show apparently meaningless details about the local population's daily life only makes the horror of it all more obvious.
Though showing the plight of the Palestinians during the first "Intifada", I do not feel this is antisemitic or whatever. Joe Sacco strives to expose the first victims of any conflict, the civilians, and how that suffering is used by the waring factions on both sides against the opponent.
This might be a "comic book" but it is also a major work showing this medium to be on par with written litterature or films at their best. It is no surprise this book has received so many awards from people who are not in the "comics" business.
A definite must read for anyone interested in good journalism or on this crisis.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, thought-provoking and informative, 25 Mar 2004
By Dan Sumption "www.sumption.org" (Sheffield, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Palestine (Paperback)
This is an incredible work of comic journalism, an incredible work of journalism full stop. Sacco spends two months in Israel and the occupied territories, living with the people, hearing their stories, and relaying them to us as directly as he is able.

At first I was a little disappointed to hear little from the Israelis, it felt like I might not be getting the whole story, but as Joe himself says, that side of the story is one that is regularly aired in the media. What we get here, as in very few other places, is a real feel of what life is like for a Palestinian, living in a refugee camp. The book is not a political polemic (although it does set out a little-heard of history of Israel from a Palestinian viewpoint), nor does it offer any easy solutions (or even any solutions), but it documents the pain and suffering of a people in a way that you're unlikely to get elsewhere.

I strongly recommend anyone who has any interest in the situation in the middle east (which these days, lets face it, should be all of us) to read this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars History as lived by real people, 29 Jul 2006
By G. Bassett (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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A truly wonderful book of journalism that shows the reader what it actually means to live, work, struggle, travel, have kids, survive and die as a Palestinian in the West bank and Gaza.
There are some truly heartbreaking stories in here, made even more so for me by the realisation that in years of hearing about the Middle East on the news I had never got any sense of what it means for a people to live their whole lives in these conditions.
Sacco tells his experiences in a self-deprecating way, never holier-than-thou or over-sentimental, always respectful. The artwork is at once simple and full of intricate detail, and beautiful to look at, even when it's subject matter is dark.

Ideally, it should make no difference to those reading this to know that I am of Jewish descent. But I find that for some reason, adding this point sometimes helps people avoid lazily dismissing reviews like this as "anti-Semitic" or somesuch.

Good honest hournalists like Joe Sacco are putting this stuff out there. How many of us choose to read and understand and then act on this kind of reporting (in the West, as much as in the Middle East) is, I think, what will decide how many more people suffer, for how long.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Perhaps not quite as superb as Safe Area Gorazde, because the characters are a little less memorable (I loved Riki and the Silly Girls from SAG), whereas the Palestinian... Read more
Published 17 days ago by M. J. Harris

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent insider's story
Palestine does what a graphic novel should do -- it uses the pictures to tell the part of the story that you don't get from news reports. Read more
Published 1 month ago by bigdaddy

5.0 out of 5 stars life in palestine
I've never been to the middle east. and all I know about the situation in gaza and the area around it comes from tv news. It's very easy to get desensitised to tv news. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Paul Tapner

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Inspirational and engrossing, it feels genuine and provides an insight into life in the East, in a refreshing way when we're saturated in the UK with one sided news reports... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Samuel Watterson

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, harrowing, unflinching. Oh, and sometimes it's really funny. But only sometimes.
Joe Sacco's earliest work in comics is some of the funniest and most extravagantly over-the-top graphic work this writer has ever read. Read more
Published 7 months ago by lexo1941

5.0 out of 5 stars Shocking
This was my first venture into graphic novels. All my life i've never been able to get into fiction, I'd stick to books on religion, war etc so when a friend pointed out that... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Benny_G

5.0 out of 5 stars An important book
An outstanding, sensitive and compelling work. Be in no doubt, this is not a graphic novel. Sacco is a superb journalist who conveys the experiences of long-suffering... Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2006 by happy camper

5.0 out of 5 stars Offers a real insight
This book offers an insight into the lives of the palestinians, it offers you the side of the story that is not told by the mainstream press. Read more
Published on 4 Oct 2006 by Jack Jones

5.0 out of 5 stars At last...
This book is fantastic. It truly illustrates the horrors and injustices that the Palestinians are having to face under Israeli occupation. Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2003 by J. Hargreaves

5.0 out of 5 stars INTERESTING
AN IMPORTANT BOOK IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE REALITY ON THE GROUND IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL. THE CARTOON STYLE IS EVOCATIVE AND HELPS GREATLY WITH UNDERSTANDING. Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2003 by Mr. S. Vohra

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