Exit Wounds (graphic novel)
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Author | Rutu Modan |
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Illustrator | Rutu Modan |
Language | English |
Genre | Comics |
Publisher | Drawn & Quarterly |
Publication date | 2007 |
Publication place | Canada |
Media type | Print, Hardcover |
Pages | 168 |
ISBN | 1-897299-06-0 |
Exit Wounds is a graphic novel written and drawn by Rutu Modan about a search of a missing lover and a missing father in modern Tel Aviv, during the tense time of bombs attack in Israel.
Plot summary
[edit]The book follows a search of a young woman, Numi, for her old lover, who disappeared just before a suicide bomb that left an unidentified body. Numi calls Koby, a cab-driver and the missing person's son, to help her in the search. Exit Wounds challenges the idea of the corrosive influence of the search for an ending.
Publication history
[edit]The graphic novel, published in Hardcover on 2007 by Drawn & Quarterly, and in paperback in 2008. It was published in Hebrew on 2008 by Am-Oved with the name קרוב רחוק Karov Rahok "close-far". It won the 2008 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Novel,[1] and the 2008 "Essentials of Angoulême".
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Eisner Awards Celebrate the "Magic of Comics"". 2008. Archived from the original on 2010-12-03.
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