New Book by Rutu Modan:
now available in book stores @ Drawn and Quarterly

Published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2007, Exit Wounds—a tale at once mystery and romance—introduced North American readers to the colorful and tightly woven narrative by Rutu Modan and was included in Time and Entertainment Weekly’s “best of” lists. Jamilti and Other Stories collects the cartoonist’s short works, which lead the reader through unexpected turns of plot and unusual character portraits. Some are darkly fantastical and unsettling, such as the unraveling of a serial-killer murder mystery, or her accounts of an infatuated plastic surgeon and his sanitarium, and a mother back from the dead with dubious healing powers. Others are more attuned to surprising discoveries that shape personal identity, as in the story of a tragic past that lies within a family’s theme hotel, or that of a struggling musician who hopes an upcoming gig will be his big break. In “Jamilti,” Modan addresses political violence with a suicide bombing that shakes up a day in the lives of a young couple.
Review

Praise for Rutu Modan:

“The real glory of Exit Wounds is Modan’s artwork. Her characters’ body language and facial expressions, rendered in the gestural ‘clear line’ style of Herge'’s Tintin books, are so precisely observed, they practically tell the story by themselves.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Modan’s spare, affecting lines and charged dialogue add up to a tragicomic take on family and identity, Grade A–” —The Washington Post

19.95$. Drawn and Quarterly - USA. For more information please visit:www.amazon.com
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David Grossman: "Writing in the Dark"- Essays on Literature and Politics
now available in Book Stores @ USA, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Throughout his career, David Grossman has been a voice for peace and reconciliation between Israel and its Arab citizens and neighbors. In five new essays on politics and culture in Israel today, he addresses the conscience of a country that has lost faith in its leaders and its ideals.

In the title essay, he writes, “It is hard to talk about yourself, and so before I reflect on my writing experience now, at this time in my life, let me say a few words about the effect of a trauma, a disaster situation, on a society and on a nation as a whole.” This collection includes an already famous speech concerning last year’s disastrous Lebanon war that claimed the life of Grossman’s own son, Uri.

Moving, clear-sighted, courageous, touching on literature and artistic creation as well as politics and philosophy, these writings are a cri de coeur from a humane voice of reason during a time of uncertainty.

18$. USA, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux - USA. For more information please visit:www.amazon.com.