{"product_id":"footnotes-in-gaza","title":"FOOTNOTES IN GAZA","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRidenhour Book Prize Winner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eEisner Award Winner for Nonfiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Sacco brings the conflict down to the most human level, allowing us to imagine our way inside it, to make the desperation he discovers, in some small way, our own.\"―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom one of the leading cartoonists of our time comes an ambitious and timely historical excavation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, has long been a notorious flashpoint in the bitter Middle East conflict. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians shot dead 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a quest to get to the heart of what happened, Joe Sacco immerses himself in the daily life of Rafah and the neighboring town of Khan Younis, uncovering Gaza past and present. As in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePalestine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSafe Area Goražde\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, his unique visual journalism renders a contested landscape in brilliant, meticulous detail. Spanning fifty years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFootnotes in Gaza\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e―Sacco's most ambitious work to date―transforms a critical conflict of our age into intimate and immediate experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"North Park Comics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47769031540972,"sku":"9780805092776","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3853\/1052\/files\/81b9LaWCH1L._SY522.jpg?v=1782090435","url":"https:\/\/northparkcomics.com\/products\/footnotes-in-gaza","provider":"North Park Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}