The Carpet Merchant of Konstantiniyya
A magic realist, romantic, historical epic with a modern, satirical take on Gothic fiction and the literary vampire genre.
Believe it or not, this was on the ALA's (American Library Association) list of Best Graphic Novels for Adults in 2020. It's NOT Twilight for adults, I promise!
Sometimes it's slow, but it's enjoyable still.
A basic plot summary:
Zeynel and Ayşe are a pair of happily-married carpet merchants in 17th century Ottoman Istanbul. While on a business trip, Zeynel becomes a Good Samaritan to a lost traveller in red. He wakes up the next day discovering, to his horror, that he is the victim of a blood-sucking djinni. Now a djinni himself, he returns home desperate to reconcile his new life with his faith and former human identity, afraid to leave behind the woman he loves.
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