Palestine: A powerful, eyewitness portrait of life under occupation.

I wish I had read it earlier. It is a book that gives the reader the exact feeling with both its illustrations and its narrative. It's one of those rare books that you can say, "I'm glad I read it." Buy it now :)

If you want to know the basics of the Palestine/Israel conflict, this graphic novel is great. It tells the history of the invasion and the 2 intifadas that followed thereafter. It's worth a read. Sacco enters Palestine as a Westerner, a journalist, to get to grips with the situation in Palestine towards the end of the first intifada- it's his account of it. His view of the Palestine/Israel conflict is not that of the mainstream western media, it's the reality of the situation. Although the text can still be considered somewhat orientalist, it really allows you to get a hold of Palestinian history. I followed up reading this with some critical theory on Palestine, a text written by Said and Hitchens as well as other critics. It's called 'Blaming the Victims' and it's a great follow-up read. I would recommend this text to those who don't have much knowledge of this conflict.

This might be my favourite graphic novel ever. The way it is written and illustrated take me right there. There will be a more articulate way to put this but being written and drawn by the same guy seemed to make it work so much better than a couple of people collaborating. Maybe this is a common thing but it has been a bit more of a lesson to me about the way comics work. I’ve just bought The Fixer by Joe Sacco.

Great book but I discovered too late that 11 pages were missing: my copy finished abruptly with page 285 when publisher states it has 296 pages. SO I DON’T KNOW THE CONCLUSION and it’s too late to return it.

I always liked graphic novels and comics. This comic from joe Sacco is great to get to know what really happen in Palestine. I really recommend to read his comics, and especially this one "Palestine". I also recommend to join the prime account to get the staff in one day.

A wonderful book. Amazing illustrations and content.

This book should be required reading in schools. It is particularly important these days. It looks like it might be out of print? That is a travesty. It should be in all libraries.

A most profound graphic novel

Joe Sacco is so amazingly amazing, every single instant, in his works, looks like. Atleast so far he has not yet let his reader down with works like The Fixer, Palenstine et al. This is again, a 'graphic novel journalism' at it's best. After reading 'The Complete Maus', Art Spiegelman's classic graphic novel on a holocaust surviver's (his dad!) tale, this is the fist time that I encountered sheer illustrative reporting talent yet another time, in Joe Sacco's Palenstine. And what an irony that while Maus tells the horrifying tale of how a community that was harassed to the extreme, Palestine is the exact reverse of the coin where the victim of Maus is the same community that is the oppressor of horrifying proportions in the Palestine tale. Such a sad tale of human mind gone all twisted and wrong, more through racistic ideals & hatred in the first case, and through affecation of centuries old past & greed to usurp the brother humans' basic rights & properties, in the second. At least a lesson on what one must not do, if one through lack of luck finds oneself as the 'stronger one'! Another tale of the strong oppressing the weak, to the extremes. In graphic novels world it's Maus, Dalai Lama, Palestine - must read, all three! Another pure nonfiction that jilts your sense of fairness & justice. Wonder, when these tales of horror ever end on this earth & will it ever?! Must read for newspaper & nonfiction lovers & a delight for graphic novel lovers too. These 3 works are especially relevant in 2015, when India governance has changed hands and people at the top are now reconsidering which idealogy to side with, like on Tibet vs China, Israel vs Palestine... wish much that, India stood more by the oppressed, again, as the country's past has no oppression that she initiated herself & she has indeed undergone oppression many times & knows the pain of racism & marginalisation of people in their own country. Summary: It's rare to find a master journalist who can do such fabulous illustrations in addition to his humorous masterpieve reporting of real life tales - it's Joe Sacco all the way. He's definitely up there, on standards, at par with Art Spiegelman himself!

Sacco erzählt den Alltag mit sehr guten Blick auf das Leben der Palästinenser. Er verarscht sich selbst als der westliche Journalist, der sich manchmal verliert, verarschen lässt. Für politische Satire Liebhaber ist das Buch ein Muss.

Stellar graphic novel taken from the author's own experiences travelling in the region. A masterpiece. A must read. a combination of journalism, creative art, personal journeys et al. As the author writes, "That the book itself still has relevance is a sorry testament to the enduring tragedy of the Palestinians – though, in some ways, it’s also a tribute to their fortitude, their unwillingness to give in.".

It’s like being there. Joe Sacco captures Palestine and Palestinians in a way that gems from Khalidi, Pappe and others aren’t able to. Sacco uses the graphic novel format supremely well. He’s a compelling and credible narrator.

Beautifully presented and the artwork is eye-catching and illustrates this graphic novels key storyline and messages. A collectable for sure.