The book features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens, political columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair. Safe Area Gorade - Free ebook download as PDF File (.pdf) or read book online for free. Safe Area Gorazde is Sacco's magnum opus and with it he is poised too become one of America's most noted journalists. I’m worried about the spring, she says (p. Her toothy grin and geniality slowly fall away to reveal her true motive for filling her home with food and people she is anxious. Praise ' Demonstrates how brilliantly comics can serve as reportage. Product Details About the Author Joe Sacco is the author of Footnotes in Gaza, for which he received an Eisner Award and the Ridenhour Book Prize, as well as Palestine, Journalism, Safe Area Gorade ( also an Eisner winner), and other books. 60 Things and Trauma in Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Gorade (Sacco, 2000, p. The book features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens, political columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair. Sacco lived for a month in Gorazde, entering before the Muslims trapped inside had access to the outside world, electricity or running water. Safe Area Gorazde is Sacco's magnum opus and with it he is poised too become one of America's most noted journalists. The book focuses on the Muslim-held enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the war. Safe Area documents Sacco’s four trips in late 1995 and early 1996 to Gorade (pronounced go-RAJH-duh, as the author explains), a United Nationsdesignated safe area in eastern Bosnia. Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage. Praised by The New York Times, Brill's Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage, emerging with this astonishing first-person account. The winner of the 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album.

Safe Area Goražde by Joe Sacco