{"product_id":"palestine-hardcover-979887500000353499","title":"Palestine (Hardcover)","description":"\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe landmark work of comics journalism by Joe Sacco, in a new hardcover edition with a new afterword by Israeli journalist Amira Hass and an introduction by Palestinian American author and critic Edward W. Said.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJoe Sacco's breakthrough work of graphic journalism—a now-established genre almost single-handedly invented by Sacco—won the American Book Award upon its initial release in 1996, and has remained a perennial, essential work for understanding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the Middle East. This new hardcover edition includes a new afterword by Israeli journalist Amira Hass and also features Palestinian academic and critic Edward W. Said’s timeless 2001 introduction to the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBased on several years of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s, where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews, \u003cem\u003ePalestine\u003c\/em\u003e was the first major comics work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, whose name has since become synonymous with this graphic form of \u003cem\u003eNew Journalism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLike \u003cem\u003eSafe Area Goražde\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePalestine\u003c\/em\u003e has been favorably compared to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003cem\u003eMaus\u003c\/em\u003e for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically sensitive subject matter through the immersive lens of the comic book medium. Sacco has often been called the first comic book journalist, and he is certainly the best.\u003c\/p\u003e\"","brand":"UCS\/Lunar Comics Distributors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47569795383537,"sku":"979887500000353499","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0275\/9865\/1469\/files\/979887500000353499.jpg?v=1777129658","url":"https:\/\/vaultofmidnight.shop\/products\/palestine-hardcover-979887500000353499","provider":"Vault of Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}