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Escaping Wars and Waves: Encounters with Syrian Refugees
Paperback
Medical ReferenceGeneral Graphic NovelsImmigration & Refugees
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781637790632
Publisher: Graphic Mundi
Published: Dec 5 2023
Pages: 80
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.40 Width: 8.75 Depth: 11.20
Language: English
From the front lines of the Syrian refugee crisis.
While on assignment between 2013 and 2017, often for Doctors Without Borders, Olivier Kugler interviewed and photographed Syrian refugees and their caregivers in camps, on the road, and in provisional housing in Iraqi Kurdistan, Greece, France, Switzerland, and England. Escaping Wars and Waves is the astonishing result of that record keeping--a graphic novel that brings to life the improvised living conditions of the refugees, along with the stories of how they survived.
Kugler captures the chaotic energy of the camps through movement-filled drawings that depict figures, locations, and seemingly random details that take on their own resonance. He gives precedence to the voices of the refugees by incorporating excerpts from his many interviews and portraits sketched from thousands of reference photos. What emerges is a complicated and intense narrative of loss, sadness, fear, and hope and an indelible impression of the refugees as individual humans with their own stories, rather than a faceless mass.
Escaping Wars and Waves is an unnervingly close and poignant look at the lives of those affected by the Syrian war and the volunteers who tend to them.
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