Description
| Product ID: | 9780224073820 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IN |
| Title: | The Fixer |
| Authors: | Author: Joe Sacco |
| Page Count: | 112 |
| Subjects: | Comic book and cartoon artwork, Comic book & cartoon art, European history, History, European history, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Yugoslavia & former Yugoslavia |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Sacco gradually realized that Neven's own story - a microcosm of the Balkan conflict itself - might be the most compelling of all. Through Neven, Sacco tells the story of the warlords and gangsters who ran the country during the war, but all the time he - and the reader - never know whether Neven is telling the truth. In The Fixer Joe Sacco returns to Bosnia, the setting for his first masterpiece, Safe Area Gorazde. In 2001 he went back to Sarajevo to meet up with his old ''fixer'', an army veteran called Neven who, for the right price, could arrange anything for the visiting journalist. Sacco gradually realized that Neven''s own story - a microcosm of the Balkan conflict itself - might be the most compelling of all. Through Neven, Sacco tells the story of the warlords and gangsters who ran the country during the war, but all the time he - and the reader - never know whether Neven is telling the truth. |
| Imprint Name: | Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2004-08-05 |
