Exit Wounds (graphic novel) explained

Exit Wounds
Author:Rutu Modan
Illustrator:Rutu Modan
Country:Canada
Language:English
Genre:Comics
Publisher:Drawn & Quarterly
Release Date:2007
Media Type:Print, Hardcover
Pages:168
Isbn:1-897299-06-0

Exit Wounds is a graphic novel written and drawn by Rutu Modan about a search of a missing lover and a missing father in modern Tel Aviv, during the tense time of bombs attack in Israel.

Plot summary

The book follows a search of a young woman, Numi, for her old lover, who disappeared just before a suicide bomb that left an unidentified body. Numi calls Koby, a cab-driver and the missing person's son, to help her in the search. Exit Wounds challenges the idea of the corrosive influence of the search for an ending.

Publication history

The graphic novel, published in Hardcover on 2007 by Drawn & Quarterly, and in paperback in 2008. It was published in Hebrew on 2008 by Am-Oved with the name קרוב רחוק Karov Rahok "close-far". It won the 2008 Eisner Award for Best New Graphic Novel,[1] and the 2008 "Essentials of Angoulême".

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Eisner Awards Celebrate the "Magic of Comics" . https://web.archive.org/web/20101203042038/http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci_eisners_08win.shtml . 2010-12-03 . 2008 . dead .