Habibi

From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets comes 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.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.