Waltz with Bashir : a Lebanon war story /Ari Folman
Material type: TextPublisher number: Variety Books Publishers Distributors | ;B-10,Street No-2,West Vinod Nagar,Delhi-110092Publication details: New York : Metropolitan Books , 2008Description: 117 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmISBN: 9780805088922Subject(s): HistoryGenre/Form: Folman, Ari -- Comic books, strips, etc.DDC classification: 956.92044 FOL Summary: In Beirut in September 1982, while Israeli soldiers secured the area, a Christian militia entered the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and massacred hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinians. Ari Folman was one of those Israeli soldiers, but for more than twenty years he remembered nothing of that night. Then came a friend's disturbing dream and with it Folman's need to excavate the truth of the war in Lebanon and answer the crucial question: What was he doing during the hours of slaughter at Sabra and Shatila? Stunningly original in form, Waltz with Bashir follows Folman's journey deep into the darkness of Beirut. Drawing on the stories of other soldiers and his own returning fragments of memory, Folman painfully and candidly pieces together the war and his place in it: the senselessness of the soldiers' orders; the fear that pervades every moment; the casual bloodshed of civilians, culminating in the massacres themselves. The result is a graphic novel that is as damning as it is beautiful. An indictment of violence of extraordinary power, Waltz with Bashir will take its place.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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956.704 STE The Prince of the Marshes | 956.70443 BLI Disarming Iraq | 956.70443 GAR Naked in Baghdad | 956.92044 FOL Waltz with Bashir | 956.94 ALI A child in Palestine | 956.94 CHI Palestine | 956.94 PEK Not the Israel my parents promised me |
In Beirut in September 1982, while Israeli soldiers secured the area, a Christian militia entered the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and massacred hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinians. Ari Folman was one of those Israeli soldiers, but for more than twenty years he remembered nothing of that night. Then came a friend's disturbing dream and with it Folman's need to excavate the truth of the war in Lebanon and answer the crucial question: What was he doing during the hours of slaughter at Sabra and Shatila? Stunningly original in form, Waltz with Bashir follows Folman's journey deep into the darkness of Beirut. Drawing on the stories of other soldiers and his own returning fragments of memory, Folman painfully and candidly pieces together the war and his place in it: the senselessness of the soldiers' orders; the fear that pervades every moment; the casual bloodshed of civilians, culminating in the massacres themselves. The result is a graphic novel that is as damning as it is beautiful. An indictment of violence of extraordinary power, Waltz with Bashir will take its place.
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