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Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95 (Paperback)
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Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95 (Paperback)

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Published: 12/04/2007
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Sacco’s emotionally shattering account of a Muslim community under siege during the Bosnian war demonstrates just how powerful graphic novel reportage can be. Skilfully built up from testimony and eyewitness accounts, Safe Area Gorazde is a stark, haunting document from a devastating twentieth century conflict.     

In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which had teetered on the brink of obliteration for three and a half years.

Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces, the mainly Muslim people of Gorazde had endured heavy attacks and severe privation to hang on to their town while the rest of Eastern Bosnia was brutally 'cleansed' of its non-Serb population. But as much as Safe Area Gorazde is an account of a terrible siege, it presents a snapshot of people who were slowly letting themselves believe that a war was ending and that they had survived.

Since it was first published in 2000, Safe Area Gorazde has been recognized as one of the absolute classics of graphic non-fiction. We are delighted to publish it in the UK for the first time, to stand beside Joe Sacco's other books on the Cape list - Palestine, The Fixer and Notes from a Defeatist.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780224080897
Number of pages: 236
Weight: 607 g
Dimensions: 256 x 192 x 16 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

Sacco has produced a work that improbably manages to combine rare insight into what the war in Bosnia felt like on the ground with a mature and nuanced political and historical understanding of the conflict... Of the myriad books that have appeared about Bosnia, few have told the truth more bravely than Sacco. He is an immense talent, from whom we will hear a great deal more. - David Rieff, New York Times Book Review

Harrowing and bleakly humorous, Sacco's account of life during the Balkan conflict is a timeless portrait of ordinary people caught in desperate circumstances. It's also a work of genius in an unlikely genre: journalism in comic book form. - Utne Reader

Like Art Spiegelman's Maus, Sacco's book juxtaposes the pop style of comics with human tragedy, making the brutality of war all the more jarring. - Time

Can comics do hard-hitting journalism? That’s the question asked – and answered – by this wonderful piece of long-form reporting - World of Cruising

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“Horrific and shocking and important.”

If you are already familiar with Joe Sacco's work this is a must and if you are not but are tempted I would highly recommend. This non-fiction graphic books recounts both Sacco's time in Gorazde working as a... More

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