Muraqqa', Tome 1 : Vêtue par le ciel

Muraqqa' is a French graphic novel about an Hindu woman in Africa that is a good artist and is recruited to draw the lives of women in the palace of the "Emperor of the World", in the middle ages. This first volume follows her as she moves from drawing animals in the wild to drawing the human beast in closed quarters. She follows the petty intrigues between the different women and faction in the palace. While drawing the different women she strives to keep herself distant from everyone. Story wise, I liked the book. Drawing wise, it is a different story. Ana Miralles draws very pretty pictures. However, all women of the approximate same age she draws are the same woman and almost all man are the same man. Anyway, I may pick up the following volumes as the story is fairly nice.
Story: 3
Art: 3
Overall: 3