The winner of the 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album.
The book features an introduction by Christopher Hitchens, political columnist for The Nation and Vanity Fair..
Safe Area Gorazde is Sacco\'s magnum opus and with it he is poised too become one of America\'s most noted journalists.
Sacco lived for a month in Gorazde, entering before the Muslims trapped inside had access to the outside world, electricity or running water.
The book focuses on the Muslim-held enclave of Gorazde, which was besieged by Bosnian Serbs during the war.
Sacco (the critically-acclaimed author of Palestine) spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage.
Praised by The New York Times, Brill\'s Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia.
Sacco spent five months in Bosnia in 1996, immersing himself in the human side of life during wartime, researching stories that are rarely found in conventional news coverage, emerging with this astonishing first-person account.
The winner of the 2001 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Album
