Safe Area Gorazde

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".

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Harrowing and bleakly humorous, Sacco's account of life during theBalkan conflict is a timeless portrait of ordinary people caught in desperatecircumstances. It's also a work of genius in an unlikely genre: journalism incomic book form.

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Joe Sacco was born in Malta. He won an American Book Award for Palestine. He is also the author of Notes from a Defeatist and The Fixer.

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