Habibi by Craig Thompson

Habibi by Craig Thompson, Graphic Novel, 672 pages.
Combining rich, intricate black and white illustrations with the parallel stories, one set from the Koran, and the other a tale of two youngsters who find and save each other, Habibi presents an extravagant, but ultimately bleak world. In Wanatolia with its slums, its poisoned land and water, ane witht the vast surrounding desert, no one is safe and days when you are free and have enough to eat and drink are a rare gift from god. Dodola is sold by her father into marriage at the age of nine. She is later stolen away by slavers and her husband is killed. She finds Zam, a small boy, abandoned by his mother among the slavers, and rescues him. They manage to live on their own for a few years, but their world is all torn apart by the greed and indifference of the people of Wanatolia and by its self-indulgent, and homicidal Sultan. They both undergo great hardship in their years apart and then attempt to build lives for themselves in a harsh modern world.


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