Jerusalem: A Family Portrait
Boaz Yakin
Product Details
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781596435759
- Published:
- 01 May 2013
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Dimensions:
- 400 pages - 216 x 152mm
Categories:
Jerusalem is a sweeping, epic work that follows a single family—three generations and fifteen very different people—as they are swept up in chaos, war, and nation-making from 1940-1948. Faith, family, and politics are the heady mix that fuel this ambitious, cinematic graphic novel.
With Jerusalem, author-filmmaker Boaz Yakin turns his finely-honed storytelling skills to a topic near to his heart: Yakin's family lived in Palestine during this period and were caught up in the turmoil of war just as his characters are. This is a personal work, but it is not a book with a political axe to grind. Rather, it seeks to tell the stories of a huge cast of memorable characters as they wrestle with a time when nothing was clear and no path was smooth.
Boaz Yakin is a screenwriter and film director based in New York City. Yakin studied filmmaking at New York City College and New York University. As a producer he has been involved in bringing projects as diverse as "Hostel" and the award-winning "Bombay Beach "to the screen. His first graphic novel published by First Second, was "Marathon" with Joe Infurnari.
Nick Bertozzi lives in Queens, NY, with his wife and daughters and is the author and artist of many other cartoon stories, among them "The Salon, Houdini: The Handcuff King, " and First Second's "Lewis & Clark "and "Stuffed!" He is a teacher at the School of Visual Arts.
An indispensable work of historical fiction about the founding of Israel from A-list Hollywood filmmaker Boaz Yakin.
