Riad Sattouf is a best-selling cartoonist and filmmaker who grew up in Syria and Libya and now lives in Paris. The author of four comics series in France and a former contributor to the satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, Sattouf is now a weekly columnist for l'Obs. He also directed the films The French Kissers and Jacky in the Women's Kingdom.
Brilliant, sensational and heartbreaking, The Arab of the
Future 4 hits all the high and low notes without skipping a
beat, setting up a thrilling conclusion to the series.
--Comics Beat Struck through with moments of terrible
violence and subtle revelation, The Arab of the Future will
be regarded as a vital text for future generations eager to
understand the vastly complex and often brutal landscape of the
Middle East at the close of the 20th century.
--Shelf Awareness Praise for The Arab of the Future: I tore
through two volumes of 'The Arab of the Future, ' by Riad
Sattouf--it's the most enjoyable graphic novel I've read in a
while.
--Zadie Smith, The New York Times Book Review
"A deft and devastating graphic memoir . . . both sensitive and
biting . . . Along the way, we get a fine-grained, first-person
account of the brutality of Syria under Hafez al-Assad and Libya
under Muammar Qaddafi."
--New York Review of Books "Exquisitely illustrated, and filled
with experiences of misfortune bordering on the farcical, Mr.
Sattouf's book is a disquieting yet essential read."
--Carmela Ciuraru, The New York Times "Darkly ironic . . .
Sattouf's father is the same immature, posturing figure familiar
from volume 1--the family can only trail along in the
mercurial patriarch's wake. Under Sattouf's pen, this state of
affairs becomes an ingeniously apt microcosm of the larger world he
grew up in."
--NPR
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