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Habibi

ISBN: 0375424148

Title: Habibi

Author: Craig Thompson

KDL Description:

This is a gorgeous graphic novel that highlights the intertwining of the Islamic and Christian faiths. The plot is love/adventure, spanning many years, in a non-specific Middle Eastern country. If you like graphic novels, this one will blow you away.
-Hazel at the Service Center

Amazon Description:

From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets (“A triumph for the genre.”—Library 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 depth—and frailty—of 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.