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.
