{"product_id":"palestine-by-joe-sacco-hardback-version-of-2024","title":"Palestine By Joe Sacco (Hardback, Version of 2024)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe landmark work of comics journalism by Joe Sacco, in a new hardcover edition with a new afterword by Israeli journalist Amira Hass and an introduction by Palestinian American author and critic Edward W. Said.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoe Sacco's breakthrough work of graphic journalism ― a now-established genre almost single handedly invented by Sacco ― won the American Book Award upon its initial release in 1996, and has remained a perennial, essential work for understanding the Palestinian Israeli conflict in the Middle East. This new hardcover edition includes a new afterword by Israeli journalist Amira Hass and also features Palestinian academic and critic Edward W. Said’s timeless 2001 introduction to the work. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased on several years of 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePalestine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of New Journalism. Like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSafe Area Gorazde\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePalestine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has been favorably compared to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMaus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically sensitive subject matter through the immersive lens of the comic book medium. Sacco has often been called the first comic book journalist, and he is certainly the best.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlack-and-white illustrations throughout\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peace and Release HK Bookstore 中東伊斯蘭文化雜貨店","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43037028548710,"sku":null,"price":309.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/6125\/4246\/files\/IMG_6580.jpg?v=1755854119","url":"https:\/\/peaceandreleasehkbookstore.myshopify.com\/products\/palestine-by-joe-sacco-hardback-version-of-2024","provider":"Peace and Release HK Bookstore 中東伊斯蘭文化雜貨店","version":"1.0","type":"link"}