Franco-Belgian comics series by Jean Dufaux and Ana Miralles
Djinn is a Franco-Belgian comics series written by Jean Dufaux and illustrated by Ana Miralles. The story is an adult adventure-thriller and deals with themes of sexuality and colonial politics.
The first four volumes make up the "Ottoman Cycle" while the following five comprise the "Africa Cycle". The "Indian Cycle", planned for four volumes, started in 2010 with the volume "Le Pavillon des Plaisirs".
Synopsis.
A young Englishwoman, Kim Nelson, travels to Istanbul in search of information about her grandmother Jade. In the years before World War I, Jade had been the favourite of the "Black Sultan", and ordered by him to seduce an English diplomat, Lord Nelson, in order to alter Turkey's influence in European politics. Kim's story and that of her grandmother are revealed in tandem, in a Europe where sexual and political allegiances are constantly shifting.
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