Rutu Modan
Tunnels
Tunnels
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In Rutu Modan's graphic novel Tunnels, a race for the Ark of the Covenant explores the ethics and world of the international antiquities trade. Nili Broshi, a great antiquities collector, is forced to donate her collection to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and she enlists a crew to dig for the artifact. The novel is set in the disputed region of biblical Israel, where Palestinians and Israelis dig alongside one another to find the sacred artifact.
Format: Hardback
Length: 284 pages
Publication date: 16 November 2021
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
When a renowned antiquities collector is compelled to donate his entire collection to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Nili Broshi sees her final opportunity to complete an archaeological expedition that she had begun decades earlier. A dig that could potentially yield the most significant religious artifact in the Middle East. Driven by her desire to restore her father's legacy as a great archaeologist after he was marginalized by his rival, Nili enlists a disparate group: a religious nationalist, his band of hilltop youths, her treacherous brother, and her childhood Palestinian friend, now an archaeological smuggler. As Nili's father succumbs to dementia, rival factions close in on and fight over the Ark of the Covenant!
Backed by extensive research into this real-world treasure hunt, Modan sets her affecting novel at the center of a political crisis. She posits that the history of biblical Israel lies in one of the most disputed regions in the world, occupied by Israel and contested by Palestine. Often in direct competition, Palestinians and Israelis dig alongside one another, hoping to find the sacred artifact believed to be a conduit to God.
Two-time Eisner Award winner Rutu Modan's third graphic novel, Tunnels, is her deepest and wildest yet. Potent and funny, Modan reveals the Middle East as no Westerner could.
Ishai Mishory is a longtime New York City and newly Bay Area-based translator and sometimes illustrator. He is currently conducting research for a PhD dissertation on 16th-century Italian printing.
Weight: 840g
Dimension: 169 x 235 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781770464667
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