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
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
GenreComics
PublisherDrawn & Quarterly
Publication date
2007
Media typePrint, Hardcover
Pages168
ISBN1-897299-06-0

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

See also

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


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