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Author Sacco, Joe.

Title Footnotes in Gaza / Joe Sacco.

Publication Info. New York : Metropolitan Books, 2009.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Graphic Novel  956.04 SAC    DUE 03-02-24 Billed
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  956.04 SA1F    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Adult Graphic Novels  GRAPHIC NOVEL SACCO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Graphic Novels  GRAPHIC NOVEL SACCO    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 418 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 28 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 416-417).
Summary "From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places. Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is a squalid place. Raw concrete buildings front trash-strewn alleys. The narrow streets are crowded with young children and unemployed men. On the border with Egypt, swaths of Rafah have been bulldozed to rubble. Rafah is today and has always been a notorious flashpoint in this bitterest of conflicts. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians dead, shot 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 daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, alive with the voices of fugitives and schoolchildren, widows and sheikhs, Footnotes in Gaza captures the essence of a tragedy" -- from publisher's web site.
Subject Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1948-1967.
Egypt -- History -- Intervention, 1956.
Rafaḥ -- History -- 20th century.
Khān Yūnus -- History -- 20th century.
Violence -- Gaza Strip -- Rafaḥ -- History -- 20th century.
Massacres -- Gaza Strip -- Khān Yūnus -- History -- 20th century.
Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1948-1967 -- Personal narratives, Palestinian.
Egypt -- History -- Intervention, 1956 -- Personal narratives, Palestinian.
Interviews -- Gaza Strip -- Rafaḥ.
Interviews -- Gaza Strip -- Khān Yūnus.
Genre/Form Graphic novels.
ISBN 9780805073478 alkaline paper
0805073477 alkaline paper
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