Exit Wounds (graphic novel)

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.

Exit Wounds
AuthorRutu Modan
IllustratorRutu Modan
LanguageEnglish
GenreComics
PublisherDrawn & Quarterly
Publication date
2007
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint, Hardcover
Pages168
ISBN1-897299-06-0

Plot summary

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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

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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 for Best New Graphic Novel,[1] and the 2008 "Essentials of Angoulême".

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References

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  1. ^ "Eisner Awards Celebrate the "Magic of Comics"". 2008. Archived from the original on 2010-12-03.
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