Name: Attack
ISBN: 9781770857612

Yasmina Khadra

Loic Dauvillier

Glen Chapron

A timely and disturbing journey that illuminates the human cost of terrorism and deceit.

Attack

Maggie Gordon

I don't really know how to review The Attack. It's a book that left me reeling, much like most of what Joe Sacco writes/draws. The story was a painful fictionalised glimpse of the Israeli-Palestinian war. It starts with an Arab doctor who has become a naturalised Israeli citizen. His life is stable and enjoyable until one day his wife kills herself in a suicide bombing. He had no idea that she held these types of political views. This side of her was a mystery to him, so he goes looking for answers. 

The book follows the husband as attempts to understand why his wife was driven to do what she did. He's angry, but so are the people that he meets with. The unfairness of the conflict is on grand display, though the book never tries to tell you who is right and wrong. However, you can't come away from this narrative without feeling as if the devastation of war is disgusting and must end. It's an ugly book, but a powerful one.