Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A powerful graphic novel, capturing the heart of day-to-day life in occupied Palestine.

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 l996 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.

' The bar is set extremely high when it comes to graphic books and the Middle East- one thinks of Joe Sacco's Palestine' Guy Delise

' Palestine is utterly compelling, and as affecting as the work of any war photographer or poet' Varsity

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Library Journal Review

Sacco reports on his time spent in Israeli-occupied territories in 1991 and 1992 in this landmark work of comics journalism. He describes the political and social landscape using interviews with both Palestinians and Jews, offering an intimate picture of this region rarely portrayed in mainstream news. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

The nine comic books of Sacco's reportage from Gaza and the West Bank constitute a milestone in nonfiction comics. They consist of what journalist Sacco did and heard and saw on the ground in occupied Palestine in a few months of 1991. In this handsome hardcover, the introduction Edward Said contributed to an earlier, incomplete collection of Palestine reappears, along with Sacco's recent reflections, passages from his 1991 journals, and two comparative features, one of Sacco's source photos and the comics panels he made from them, the other of rejected pages and their replacements in the finished comics. A must-have for graphic-novels collections.--Olson, Ray Copyright 2008 Booklist