''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
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books, sometimes referred to as the comics industry's equivalent of the Academy Awards. They are named in ...
for Best New Graphic Novel,
and the 2008 "
Essentials of Angoulême".
See also
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Alternative comics
References
External links
Rutu Modan 'Exit Wounds' Interview
2007 graphic novels
Comics by Rutu Modan
Drawn & Quarterly titles
Israeli graphic novels
Eisner Award winners for Best Graphic Album: New
Comics set in Israel
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