Safe area Goražde
by Joe Sacco · first published 2000
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A graphic novel based on the author's 1995-96 visits to Gorazde, one of the U.N.-created "safe areas" in Eastern Bosnia, showing the brutality and humanity that coexisted there during the Bosnian War of 1992-95.
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on “Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List?” ↗It can happen here. Neighbors in the former Yugoslavia socialized together and got along well until the day they didn’t. I suggest the graphic novel “Safe Area Gorazde” for an account of this. Also, it happened here once before.
on “The End of the Roman Empire Wasn’t That Bad” ↗Recently finished The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte and How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. I would have been embarrassed to have been caught reading the latter given the subject matter, despite how influential he's been on how I think about food, but it was a real insightful treat. Currently reading The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinar
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗