{"product_id":"requiem-for-gaza","title":"Requiem for Gaza [PRE-ORDER 10\/06]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOT YET AVAILABLE. Pre-order now. This title is scheduled to arrive October 6, 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote: release dates and prices are tentative and subject to change at the publisher's whim.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen pre-ordering with multiple items, remember your order will not ship until the last pre-ordered item is in stock. If you want items to ship separately, place separate orders.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a profound and elegiac work of investigative journalism, the writer Chris Hedges and the cartoonist Joe Sacco collaborate to present the testimony of displaced Palestinians who lived through the genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the spring of 2025 the cartoonist Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, and Chris Hedges, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, traveled to Cairo where they interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had recently left Gaza. In Requiem for Gaza, they use the experience and stories of these families to detail the crucible of the genocide, the loss of homes and communities, the appalling death toll among friends and loved ones, the constant displacement, the terror of indiscriminate killing, the hunger and deprivation, the obliteration of all that was known and familiar, and the struggle to cope with the callous indifference of a world that continues to supply Israel with weapons despite its wholesale destruction of Gaza and mass slaughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRequiem for Gaza, like their New York Times best seller Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, combines comics and single images drawn by Sacco within the narrative written by Hedges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHedges' vivid prose and Sacco's visceral images complement each other and together paint a portrait of dignity and suffering under genocide. The collective power of the individual stories that chronicle the first day of the genocide, the forced evacuation of homes, the targeted assassinations, the false hopes engendered by ceasefires, the dislocation and alienation of exile, the brutal killing and hasty burial of family members, and the humiliation of living under tarps without clean food and water bring every aspect of the genocide to life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against this horror are stories of self-sacrifice and compassion that show how Palestinians not only clung to their humanity, but morally triumphed over their killers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A book that captures, in painful detail, the terrors being visited on Gaza.\" — Kirkus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco travelled to Cairo to record the stories of Palestinians who had managed to leave Gaza. One of them says: 'We are not heroes. We are human beings.' The people of Gaza tend to be seen as terrorists, statistics, online viewing, or symbols of heroic endurance.  Hedges' narrative and Sacco's cartoons, while evoking and mourning a unique culture now destroyed, bring the reader as close as possible, in harrowingly graphic detail, to the reality of human struggle under displacement and genocide.\" — Norman Finkelstein and Deborah Maccoby\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In Requiem for Gaza, testimony meets truth's arrow. Hedges' prose combines with Sacco's lines to produce a requiem for the slaughtered, a mirror for the indifferent.\" — Yanis Varoufakis (author of Technofuedalism: What Killed Capitalism, Foundations of Economics)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Artist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chris Hedges \/ Joe Sacco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fantagraphics Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePage Count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160pp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.25 x 10.75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e hardcover, b\/w\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate of Publication:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 6, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 979-8875002724\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49030734676224,"sku":"9798875002724","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/3902\/files\/reqforgaza.jpg?v=1784482830","url":"https:\/\/atomicbooks.com\/products\/requiem-for-gaza","provider":"Atomic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}