My Thoughts:
Palestine and Israel is a complicated history of walls and war. Perhaps the easiest way to understand what is going on now is to look at what went on before. This is not a current graphic novel, but this is Joe Sacco's graphic novel from the early 1990s when Joe Sacco spent two months in Gaza. I imagine that the images in here are similar to the images in real like. The suffering is the same, just one generation later.
This will help young adults understand politics, but what they will really understand is the power of images as a tool for reporting history, even if they are drawn images. This is war correspondence at its most powerful.
The Palestinian plight in these current times are more emotionally wrenching because of this graphic non-fiction. We live in a complex world. Sacco depicts it well even if this is almost 30 years old.
From the Publisher:
In late 1991 and early 1992, at the time of the first Intifada, Joe Sacco spent two months with the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, travelling and taking notes. Upon returning to the United States, he started writing and drawing Palestine, which combines the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling to explore this complex, emotionally weighty situation. He captures the heart of the Palestinian experience in image after unforgettable image, with great insight and remarkable humour. The nine-issue comics series won a 1996 American Book Award. It is now published for the first time in one volume, befitting its status as one of the great classics of graphic non-fiction.
Publication Information:
Author/Illustrator: Joe Sacco
Publisher: Jonathan Cape (November 2009)
Paperback: 266 pages
ISBN 13: 978-0224069823
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