Exit wounds
Modan, Rutu
Exit wounds / Rutu modan - Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York : Distributed in USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux , c2007. - 172 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Tel Aviv-based Modan gives American comics readers a sharp sense of Israeli life in this brilliant and moving graphic novel. The story follows Koby Franco, a young taxi driver and lost soul, as he searches for his missing father, a man who long ago left the family and may or may not have been killed in a suicide bomb attack. Assisting and prodding him is Nuni, a young soldier who was romantically involved with the missing father. Modan takes her characters across Israel and through a variety of different Israeli social strata as the search progresses. Along the way it becomes clear that Koby's father's identity is in fluxhe leaves all those that he loves, but touches on everything it means to be an Israeli: family man, soldier, religious practitioner and, perhaps, victim.
9781897299067
Suicide----Fiction
Mystery comic book strips, etc.
Graphic novels
Comic books, strips, etc.
GN MOD
Exit wounds / Rutu modan - Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York : Distributed in USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux , c2007. - 172 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Tel Aviv-based Modan gives American comics readers a sharp sense of Israeli life in this brilliant and moving graphic novel. The story follows Koby Franco, a young taxi driver and lost soul, as he searches for his missing father, a man who long ago left the family and may or may not have been killed in a suicide bomb attack. Assisting and prodding him is Nuni, a young soldier who was romantically involved with the missing father. Modan takes her characters across Israel and through a variety of different Israeli social strata as the search progresses. Along the way it becomes clear that Koby's father's identity is in fluxhe leaves all those that he loves, but touches on everything it means to be an Israeli: family man, soldier, religious practitioner and, perhaps, victim.
9781897299067
Suicide----Fiction
Mystery comic book strips, etc.
Graphic novels
Comic books, strips, etc.
GN MOD
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