Synopses & Reviews
In the wake of his acclaimed Palestine, Joe Sacco spent four months inBosnia in 1995-1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories rarely found in conventional news coverage. The bookfocuses on the Muslim enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by BosnianSerbs during the war; Sacco spent four weeks in Gorazde, entering before theMuslims trapped inside had access to the outside world, electricity or runningwater.Released in 2000, Safe Area Gorazde confirmed Sacco as one of the preeminentjournalists of his time, and earned him a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship.Now for its 10th anniversary, Fantagraphics is releasing an expanded hardcover edition which, much like 2007'sPalestine: The Special Edition, supplements the original work with page after page of related drawings, on-site sketches, photographs, and transcripts from Sacco's notes.
Synopsis
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 population. But 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-fiction. We 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.