FREE EXIT WOUNDS PDF Rutu Modan | 176 pages | 06 Jul 2007 | Vintage Publishing | 9780224081665 | English | London, United Kingdom Entrance Versus Exit Wounds Entrance Wounds - Gunshot Wounds Goodreads Exit Wounds you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan. Exit Wounds by Rutu Exit Wounds. Noah Stollman Translator. Set in modern- day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a victim of a suicide bombing in Hadera, Koby reluctantly joins the soldier in searching for clues. His death would certainly explain his empty apartment and disconnected phone line. As Koby Exit Wounds to unravel the mystery Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man, Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. As Koby tries to unravel the mystery of his father's death, he finds himself piecing together not only the last Exit Wounds months of his father's life but his entire Exit Wounds. With thin, precise lines and luscious watercolors, Rutu Modan creates Exit Wounds portrait of modern Israel, a place where sudden death mingles with the slow dissolution Exit Wounds family ties. She is a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Tel Aviv Israel. Exit Wounds Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Exit Woundsplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Exit Wounds details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Exit Wounds. View all 35 comments. Mar 30, Hamad rated it it was ok. The art is not that interesting, and the story is not that profound. The main character is constantly living his life as defined by his childhood, and then Exit Wounds negative aspects of his childhood father comes back to confront him in indirect ways. Toward the Exit Wounds, the main character overcomes this, supposedly grows up and starts anew. That's about it. Now you don't actually need to read it. View 2 comments. Oct 16, Aloke rated it it was amazing Shelves: ownedcomixfiction. I wonder why this doesn't get as much love Exit Wounds The Property? Both are so good but if anything I loved this one more. I'm a sucker for that Tintin style that Modan works in. Everything looks great even though so much of the story takes place in mundane places: bus stops, non descript highways, unkempt apartments. There are so many panels that would look amazing as album covers. That cover shot of Numi from below or plunging into the waves. She's such a great character. And so is Koby as the son of I wonder why this doesn't get Exit Wounds much love as The Property? And so is Koby as the son of a distant and disappointing father. It was even better on rereading when things made more sense and you see how carefully the pieces fit together. My edition also has an interview with Modan by Joe Sacco. I haven't read any of his stuff but I think being a comics artist Exit Wounds meant his questions were more illuminating. She answers with a lot of interesting details that shed light on her own personality Exit Wounds process in creating Exit Wounds and earlier works. Maybe other reviewers don't like it as much because that tree really looks way too tall but they're too polite to say it. I know it can't be the way Modan draws tears because there's nothing in this book that compares to the gusher in The Property! Exit Wounds all 5 comments. Oct 12, Dov Zeller rated it it was amazing Shelves: graphics-comics. In a weird way this seems to me an all mixed up retelling of Jane Eyre, with its plain heroes, one Exit Wounds, one poor, and the mystery person in the attic very metaphorical Exit Wounds something of a stretch, but why not. There is something of Exit Wounds and Dickens in it, because it's a comic novel, with a lot of realism and a touch of absurdity and magic. But while there are hints of some of the classics in it, it is so contemporary and Israeli, leaving the reader to navigate a sad, funny and brutish wor In a weird way this seems to me an all mixed up retelling of Jane Eyre, with its plain heroes, one wealthy, one poor, and the mystery person in the attic very metaphorical and something of a stretch, but why not. But while there are hints of some of the classics in it, it is so contemporary and Israeli, leaving the reader to navigate a sad, funny and brutish world on their own. With restraint but also the mischief Exit Wounds deeper meaning that comes when a storyteller is enjoying the process, Modan tells the tale of Numi and Koby. Modan's a great artist and has a unique voice, by which I mean colors, styles, silences and surprises. The cover and the front matter bring us immediately into the world of the story a little off-balance, which is I think, how we stay. Compelling and tonally strange, the cover draws attention away from a certain bombing in the bottom row of panels toward a large closeup of Numi, her body turned toward us, her face turned away, her unglamorous hair blowing in the breeze. She's so close, her puffy red coat is almost pressed against the glass of a camera. This frame takes up most of the cover and though our attention is first attracted by Numi, as our eyes follow her gaze, we see, at a certain distance, standing by his Exit Wounds, Koby, looking small, unsure of himself, almost innocent. Inside there are a few understated title pages. One has a very sweet portrait of Numi, interrupted and finished on the next page, opposite a white page with a strip of cityscape at the center, city washed out in salmon or pink, and Exit Wounds in full color, going about their daily lives, though Exit Wounds as prominent as the stop light. It is not just that mundane life is set against the horror of a bombing, but that we feel Exit Wounds very strong pull away from big events into the private worlds of people who still must make sense of their own, small lives. They are not heroes in any typical sense of the word, far from it, but their disconnection becomes the central focus of the story, even Exit Wounds they try to clumsily piece together a story of a bombing in a cafe that got very little notice in the press. The comedy of it reminds me a tiny bit of "Manhattan Murder Mystery". The book has only four chapters, which feels very deliberate and Exit Wounds seasonal, though I wish there were a few more. Each chapter title page has a white background with two characters in the middle of some kind of action or conversation. The first chapter it's Numi and Koby talking on a park bench. The second, Koby and his aunt, carrying groceries and talking. The third, Koby and Numi swimming. And the fourth, Numi's dogs big Exit Wounds to be great danes, but spotted like dalmatians alert to some kind of danger. Once Exit Wounds get to the Exit Wounds sequence of panels, we already have many of the pieces of the puzzle, and Modan wastes no time setting up the story and also very skillfully introduces us to characters and their dynamics There has been a bombing. Koby's father appears to have disappeared, but he's so often out of the picture, inconsistent Exit Wounds unsteady in his contact, that nobody believes he's really gone. Numi contacts Koby trying to figure out what happened to his father, and Koby is forced to confront his ambivalence, bitterness, selfishness, and a desire and hope for connection that he's long shoved to the background of his somewhat pitiful life. More I will not say. I highly Exit Wounds this book. Also, below is a goodreads review I really liked. Jun 18, Karyl rated it really liked it Shelves: graphic-novels, in-a-foreign-landlibrary-reads. I never read reviews before I read a book because doing so generally colors my opinions of said books. But sometimes I wish I had, and this is one of those times. I'm not well-versed enough in graphic novels to really critique them as well as I would like, and had I read the reviews of this book before I started, I feel I would have picked up on a lot more. Modan's art is very simple and spare, but she still manages to convey quite a bit of emotion in these simple lines. I can well identify Exit Wounds I never Exit Wounds reviews before I read a Exit Wounds because doing so generally colors my opinions of said books. I can well identify with Koby and his frustration with his father not knowing who he was as a person and not even seeming to care because I have Exit Wounds mother like that, though it boggles my mind that any parent can be so disassociated from a child they created.