Habibi

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.

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.

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.

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

Blankets is Craig Thompson's most definitive book. And Habibi is generally underrated, and often for quite good reason. There are racial stereotypes and cultural inaccuracies in this book. But at the end of the day, the general narrative helps the work transcend over such flak, and the artwork is typically Thompsonian to be forgiven for other lapses.

This is one of the best I have read in many years. As always the artwork is gorgeous and the nonlinear narrative adds 'colour' to the structure of this complex work. It is an unusual romance told by a master story teller.

Wonderful book that one would want to come back again and again. Reading just once won't be enough to fully enjoy different layers that Craig Thompson had portrayed. A handy reference and definite inspiration for the aspiring comic writers.

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!

Loved entire story and the black and white graphics front to back. It may cause laughing and crying.

La edición es impresionante, los dibujos son trazos maestros.

Es uno de los mejores comics que he leído jamás, tanto por su historia, como por su grafismo. Totalmente recomendado

Testo profondo e molto bello

I was drawn to this book in my local library, even though it was hard to figure out what the theme was from a perfunctory perusal. Was it a middle eastern religious tale, for example? Once I started to read it, I was fascinated by the interweaving of patterns from mathematical history, cultural wisdom tales, and a very engaging main story, that held much of relevance to our modern world, its many relationships and risky world experiences. I have very happy to have this graphic novel in my library and I look foreward to rereading it, as it has a depth that requires frequent dives to reach.