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 populationBut 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-fictionWe 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.



Format Häftad Omfång 236 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Vintage Publishing Utgivningsdatum 2007-04-12 ISBN 9780224080897