Exit Wounds #[nn]

A young woman in a red jacket stands at the center of this quietly charged cover, set against a sun-bleached Israeli streetscape complete with a taxi and palm trees — while a man in blue looks on from a cautious distance. Beneath the main image, a strip of three smaller panels hints at flags, fire, and newspaper headlines, lending a documentary unease to the everyday scene. Rutu Modan's graphic novel Exit Wounds, published by Jonathan Cape in 2009, promises an intimate, emotionally layered story rooted in the textures of contemporary Israeli life.