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In this graphic novel, Joe Sacco recounts the time he spent in Palestine in the early 1990s. He traveled to the area because he felt that journalists were doing a poor job portraying the Palestinian side of the conflict and he wanted to hear their side of the story. In the novel he depicts horrific stories of imprisonment and the injustices suffered by the Palestinian people. I suppose it is a valuable piece of journalism, but I didn't like it very much.
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So if i were to make a list of the five most depressing things I've ever read, I'm pretty sure this and Safe Area Gorazde (also by Joe Sacco) would be at the top.
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the intersection of documentary and comics, hard and brutal and bursting at the seams. beautiful and terrible, my first encounter with sacco, can't wait to read more.
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Absolutely amazing. Comic journalism documenting the two months Sacco spent in Palestine during the end of the first intifada.
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