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Exit wounds / Rutu modan

By:

Modan, Rutu

Publication details: Montreal : Drawn & Quarterly ; New York : Distributed in USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux , c2007.Description: 172 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781897299067

Subject(s):

Suicide -- --Fiction

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

GN MOD

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Graphic novel /Novela Gráfica	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	GN MOD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015021

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.

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