Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 FROM THE PUBLISHER
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.
Author Biography: Joe Sacco lives in Queens, NY and teaches at the School of Visual Arts. A native of Malta, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon.
FROM THE CRITICS
David Rieff
Of the myriad of books...about Bosnia, few have told the truth more bravely than Sacco's. He is an immense talent. —The New York Times Book Review
David Rieff - New York Times Book Review
Who would have imagined that the best
dramatic evocation of the Bosnian catastrophe
would turn out to be a book-length comic strip? .
. . But Sacco's book not only has dramatic force.
More crucially, it has the emblematic quality of a
good historical or political novel.
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