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Exit Wounds

by Rutu Modan

Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album – New · 2008 · Winner
Drawn & Quarterlygraphic-novelsISBN 9781897299067

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About This Book

A young Israeli cab driver searches for his estranged father, who may have been killed in a Tel Aviv bus bombing. Rutu Modan's debut graphic novel is a masterpiece of restraint and dark comedy, set against the backdrop of everyday life in a nation living with terrorism.

About the Author

Rutu Modan is an Israeli cartoonist and illustrator. She won the Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album – New in 2008 for Exit Wounds and again in 2014 for The Property, both published by Drawn & Quarterly. Her graphic novels blend family drama, political conflict, and dark comedy in the context of contemporary Israel.

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