Pantheon Books
September 2011
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Featuring: Dodola; Zam
672 pages ISBN: 0375424148 EAN: 9780375424144 Hardcover Add to Wish List
From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets (βA triumph for the genre.ββLibrary Journal), a highly anticipated new graphic novel.
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 depthβand frailtyβof their connection.
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.
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