Habibi

Don’t worry, I wont mention anything about the plot, but the art in the book is the draw that holds everything together: lavish page designs, confident linework, and panels that feel hand-carved. The Arabic calligraphy is the book’s most striking feature, not just ornament but structure—words that become patterns, patterns that become meaning. Thompson in this book has definitely treated calligraphy as ‘music for the eyes.’

Everything is excellent in this book. The condition, story, artwork, all are excellent. I read the full book of 650 pages or so in just one sitting of 4hours. Will check now the other work of same artist for sure.

Been a fantasy to own one of these

Book is hard bound and a pretty thick volume. Promptly shipped and recieved within 3 days in perfect condition. Superb and detailed art work in pen and ink (no colours) , compelling story line, paper quality cudve been better, but at this price, the art itself even if on newspaper print , is underpriced, besides it mightve made the book too heavy to be practical. The content is adult, so if u have kids at home.. discretion advised.

இந்த புத்தகத்தை வாங்க தயங்க வேண்டாம் அட்டகாசமான புத்தகம் ஆனால் குழந்தைகளுக்கானது இல்லை இதன் art காகவே வாங்கலாம்

The name say it all. You will fall in love with this book for it's rich artwork and the wonderful storyline.

It's an awesome piece of work. An unique contribution to the world of graphic novel. Each page contains marvelous hand drawn images that blow readers mind. The story is really good.

Good idea of a storyline - lead lady gives you a sense of de javu - probably from one of those from Gabriel Garcia Marquez, was it 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'? Spoiler Alert (thanks, Ojaswini for pointing out!) for the para below: A girl bringing up an adopted boy and their ending up in love with each other from late adolescence. Twist that Thompson adds is their seperation - girl ending up in a sultan's harem & the boy with a Hijra group, castrated to 'fit in' and all that - and later reunited and unable to be couple in the real sense. There are some real good intellectual gymnastics of interspersing it with myths and stories and arabic letters - all those exotic stuff that may have been added for improving the 'sells'. Then there're some moments when one tires of the author seeming fetish with the 'perfect female forms' & men's orgies. It's an adult novel & graphic at that too. Art is good. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone, for the price listed. I felt it's a waste of my money & precious time - my first thought after reading it, was to dump it outside for whomever interested in the recycled paper value - only thing that stopped me was the high price that I paid to get hold of the book. Though this may sound a bit harsh, but that's genuinely what I felt at the end of the book. I have ordered another 2 Craigs seeing all rave reviews - not cancelling them just as not to cause seller inconvenience. Hope they are at least marginally better than this!