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Šoba: une histoire de Bosnie

En el año 2010, el ganador del premio Pulitzer Chris Hedges y el galardonado historietista Joe Sacco emprendieron una investigación sobre las zonas sacrificadas, vastos territorios estadounidenses consagrados a la explotación en aras de la economía, el progreso y el desarrollo tecnológico. Su intención era mostrar, mediante palabras y dibujos, cómo es la vida allí donde las reglas del mercado campan a sus anchas; allí donde los seres humanos y el medio ambiente son usados, y luego desechados, para maximizar las ganancias. Este estudio examina las Llanuras occidentales, tierras en las que los nativos americanos fueron masacrados, los antiguos núcleos de extracción de carbón, hoy en decadencia, las pésimas condiciones laborales en los campos de cultivo del país, y acaba en Zuccotti Park, lugar en el que una nueva generación se rebela contra del mismo estado corporativo que ha legado a los jóvenes una catástrofe económica, política, cultural y medioambiental. Título original: Days of destruction, days of revolt

Jours de destruction, jours de révolte

In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old 'fixer', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the visiting journalist. Sacco gradually realized that Neven's own story - a microcosm of the Balkan conflict itself - might be the most compelling of all. Through Neven, Sacco tells the story of the warlords and gangsters who ran the country during the war, but all the time he - and the reader - never know whether Neven is telling the truth.

The fixer ; a story from Sarajevo

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.

Safe area gorazde

When bombs are falling and western journalism is the only game left in town "fixers" are the people who sell war correspondents the human tragedy and moral outrage that makes news editors happy.It’s dangerous, a little amoral and a lot desperate.Award-winning comix-journalist Joe Sacco goes behind the scene of war correspondence to reveal the anatomy of the big scoop. He begins by returning us to the dying days of Balkan conflict and introduces us to his own fixer; a man looking to squeeze the last bit of profit from Bosnia before the reconstruction begins. Thanks to a complex relationship with the fixer Joe discovers the crimes of opportunistic warlords and gangsters who run the countryside in times of war. But the west is interested in a different spin on the stories coming out of Bosnia. Almost ten years later, Joe meets up with his fixer and sees how the new Bosnian government has "dealt" with these criminals and Joe ponders who is holding the reins of power these days...

The Fixer: A Story from Sarajevo

A first for the world's greatest cartoon reporter, a collection of journalism, including articles on the American military in Iraq that have never been published in the United States Over the past decade, Joe Sacco, "our moral draughtsman" (Christopher Hitchens), has increasingly turned to short-form comics journalism to report from the sidelines of wars around the world. Collected here for the first time, Sacco's darkly funny, revealing reportage confirms his standing as one of the foremost war correspondents working today.In "The Unwanted," Sacco chronicles the detention of Saharan refugees who have washed up on the shores of Malta; "Chechen War, Chechen Women" documents the trial without end of widows in the Caucasus; and "Kushinagar" goes deep into the lives of India's untouchables, who are hanging "onto the planet by their fingernails." Other pieces take Sacco to the smuggling tunnels of Gaza; the trial of Milan Kovacevic, Bosnian warlord, in The Hague; and the darkest chapter in recent American history, Abu Ghraib. And on a mission with American troops—pieces never published in the United States—he confronts the misery and absurdity of the war in Iraq.Among Sacco's most mature, accomplished work, Journalism demonstrates the power of our premier cartoonist to chronicle human experience with a force that often eludes other media.

Reportages

Soba était en train de devenir une rock star avant que la guerre éclate et l’oblige à partir se battre. Maintenant, la paix en Bosnie est proche, Soba évoque son passé et s’interroge sur son futur. Que va-t-il faire quand la guerre finira ? Va-t-il rester dans la Sarajevo qu’il aime tant et pour laquelle il a risqué sa vie ? Va-t-il partir ailleurs, où la vie sera sans doute plus facile et le succès semble à portée de main ?Zigzaguant sur des routes boueuses, s’arrêtant à des innombrables checkpoints, trois reporters traversent la Bosnie pour essayer de rencontrer Radovan Karadzic, le chef serbo-bosniaque. L’homme ne fera qu’une apparition rapide, entouré de ses gardes du corps ; Sacco se contentera de l’observer de loin, enchaînant ses réflexions et brossant d’un portrait de Karadzic bien plus poignant qu’une simple interview.Après Goradze et The Fixer, Joe Sacco achève avec ces deux histoires, qui se déroulent des deux côtés de la ligne de front, son exceptionnel travail de reportage sur un des conflits les plus sanglants de la récente histoire européenne. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée.

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