Product DescriptionFrom the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets (A triumph for the genre.Library Journal) a highly anticipated new graphic novel.
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Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts?harems and modern industrial clutter Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance by circumstance and by the love that grows between them. We follow them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (not unlike our own) fueled by fear lust and greed; and as they discover the extraordinary depthand frailtyof their connection.
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At once contemporary and timeless Habibi gives us a love story of astounding resonance: a parable about our relationship to the natural world the cultural divide between the first and third worlds the common heritage of Christianity and Islam and most potently the magic of storytelling.Amazon.com ReviewAmazon Best Books of the Month September 2011: Habibi is impressive to hold. It looks like a lost tome?? recovered from a different time and place--a fitting package for a comic book that feels like an exotic?? bizarre fairy tale. Craig Thom