Books

Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995

Average customer rating:

Insightful reporting from a different perspective
The genocide of Muslims by Christians in the 1990s
Awsome history graphic novel
An Intimate look at Bosnia via graphic novel format
A Graphic Documentary, Not a Comic Book

Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995
Joe Sacco , and Christopher Hitchens
Manufacturer: Fantagraphics Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

General | Comic Strips | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Graphic Novels | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

Fantagraphics | Publishers | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

Bosnia and Herzegovina | Europe | History | Subjects | Books

Eastern | Europe | History | Subjects | Books

General | Europe | History | Subjects | Books

Israel | Middle East | History | Subjects | Books

General | Military | History | Subjects | Books

General | World | History | Subjects | Books

Discrimination & Racism | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Art Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books

Look Inside History Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
Similar Items:

Palestine
The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo
War's End: Profiles From Bosnia 1995-1996
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

ASIN: 1560974702

Book Description

A landmark work of New Journalism is now available in softcover.

Safe Area Gorazde is Joe Sacco's 240-page opus about the war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco spent four months in Bosnia in 1995-1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories rarely found in conventional news coverage. The book focuses on the Muslim enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the war. Sacco spent four weeks in Gorazde, entering before the Muslims trapped inside had access to the outside world, electricity or running water.

The hardcover edition of Safe Area Gorazde put Sacco on the map as one of the pre-eminent journalists of his time, and the softcover edition will present his work to a wider audience. The book has been prominently featured in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Utne Reader, Spin, The London Times, The Washington Post, Brill's Content, several NPR programs, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Economist, The Atlantic Monthly, and other media. The book also led to Sacco being named a recipient of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship. Safe Area Gorazde features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens, political columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair.

Customer Reviews:

Insightful reporting from a different perspective.......2006-10-17

Joe Sacco, Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 (Fantagraphics, 2002)

Joe Sacco's spent some time in Gorazde after things calmed down a bit over there-- got to know the people, talked to them a lot, blended in with the scenery. He drew them, related their words, drew the things they saw and experienced day to day. Safe Area Gorazde is the result.

If you're used to either the current spate of war memoirs or the current spate of graphic novels, Safe Area Gorazde will likely seem familiar, yet still somewhat out of place. It is a book that resides comfortably in neither category, but I can't quite call it a successful cross of the two; it's too narrative for graphic noveldom, while being too impressionist to really classify as a war memoir. This is not to say that the book is bad by any means; there is a great deal to be absorbed here, and given the short shrift received by the plight of Gorazde as it was happening in the American press, far more Americans should be absorbing it than already have. Sacco has a gentle, self-deprecating humor, and the kind of ear that turns even the most unpleasant interviewee into a sympathetic character. As well, while most of Sacco's drawings are straightforward-- there are an almost unsettling number of scenes in this book featuring a single character against a monochrome background, as if being interviewed on a talk show (or up against a wall being faced by a firing squad)-- every once in a while one pops out that makes you realize that, yes, there's a war going on in Gorazde as Sacco is conducting these interviews. The scarcity of the out-and-out brutal pictures makes them all the more effective in Sacco's pastiche of desperation, loss, and ever-present gallows humor.

Good stuff, this. ***

The genocide of Muslims by Christians in the 1990s.......2006-09-01

I just finished reading this brilliant work. I was in Eastern Europe in 1991-1993 and saw the refugees coming out of Bosnia. I followed the story as close as I could, even visting a refugee camp. But Sacco's illustrations put me on the ground in the supposed safe zones. The brutality of the supposedly Christian Serbs to Muslim Bosnians is so overwheliming it makes any beheadings in Iraq look like a birthday party in comparison.

The book also does a nice job giving the history of the war, including the role Clinton played, for those who don't remember the 1990s. Please rread this book. You can do it in a day.

Awsome history graphic novel.......2006-01-16

A graphic novel that reveals the history of the Bosnian war and cleansing of Muslims and Crotians by the Serbs.Novel is by Joe Sacco a Journalist and cartoonist. He also has writtin other graphic novels.

An Intimate look at Bosnia via graphic novel format.......2005-09-22

Safe Area Gorazde shows on a personal level what people went through during the oftentimes savage Serbian war on Bosnia in the early nineties. In typical thug fashion, the Serbians managed to violate every aspect of diplomacy as they quite literally butchered and stole their way through the eastern regions of Bosnia. Joe Sacco does a good job capturing the tragedy and the emotion of the situation, though I must admit that I found his art to be very distracting. For what it is, however, the art is internally consistent and well done.

Comparisons to Joe Kubert's "Fax from Sarajevo" are inevitable. As journalism, "Safe Area Gorazde" is a much superior work, though as a comic book, "Fax from Sarajevo" is far, far better. But then, Kubert is a grandmaster of the craft, after all, just as Sacco is more directly experienced with graphic-format documentaries.

Fortunately, you don't have to choose between the two. You can (and should) read them both!

A Graphic Documentary, Not a Comic Book.......2005-04-04

A tremendous achievement. As he did with the Pulitzer-award deserving "Palestine," Sacco again journeys into a people's culture and history with an unerring eye and ear. This time he focusses on Bosnia in the mid-1990s and he relates the horrific genocidal actions against the Muslim Bosnians in the enclave of Gorazde beautifully. This is a gem of a book that demonstrates that graphic novels (and documentaries) can pack as powerful an emotional punch as any piece hanging in a museum or exhibited in a thetaer. Bravo!

Gorazde Zona protegida: La guerra en Bosnia oriental 1992-1995: Safe Area Gorazde/ The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995/ Spanish Ediiton

Average customer rating:

Gorazde Zona protegida: La guerra en Bosnia oriental 1992-1995: Safe Area Gorazde/ The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995/ Spanish Ediiton
Joe Sacco
Manufacturer: Public Square Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

General | Comic Strips | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Graphic Novels | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

Bosnia and Herzegovina | Europe | History | Subjects | Books

Spain | Europe | History | Subjects | Books

Spanish | Foreign Language Nonfiction | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books

General | Revistas Cómicas y Novelas Gráficas | Libros en español | Formats | Books

Book Description

Joe Sacco's books offer both sharp insight into the complexities of global politics and extraordinary glimpses of the everyday people who live in a war zones. He has been favorably compared with Pulitzer-Prize winner Art Spiegelman for his ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically-sensitive subject matter within the comic book medium. In 1995, just prior to the Dayton Peace Accord, Sacco spent four months in Sarajevo and its surrounding areas. There he began his book Safe Area: Gorazde, a staggering and fierce condemnation of the political impotence and badly planned UN operations during the Bosnian conflict.

Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia Nineteen Ninety-Two to Nineteen Ninety-Five

Average customer rating:

A Graphic Documentary Appropriate For Teenagers and Adults

Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia Nineteen Ninety-Two to Nineteen Ninety-Five
Joe Sacco
Manufacturer: Tandem Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding

Bosnia and Herzegovina | Europe | History | Subjects | Books

General | Military | History | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0613509943

Customer Reviews:

A Graphic Documentary Appropriate For Teenagers and Adults.......2005-04-04

Books:

Books