The fourth volume is significantly longer (288 pp.), and from what has been revealed (an overthrow of their father’s power) it appears to be the most dramatic yet.Īn international publishing phenomenon, the six published volumes of The Arab of the Future have already sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. The third volume (2016) sees him between the ages of six and nine, the time he becomes aware of the society he is growing up in (1985-1987). The second volume (2015) tells the story of his first year of school in Syria (1984-1985). The first volume (2014) covers the period from 1978 to 1984: from birth to the age of six, little Riad is shuttled between Libya, Brittany and Syria.
The Arab of the Future tells the story of Riad Sattouf’s childhood in the Middle East. The most ambitious and most accomplished work by Riad Sattouf, The Arab of the Future is long-awaited by the press and the public.
Raised by a paranoid Syrian father who dreamed of being a dictator, it is with devastating humor and great sensitivity that Riad Sattouf talks about his childhood and the story of his family in the Libya of Mouammar Kadhafi and the Syria of Hafez el Assad. In the same vein as Maus by Art Spiegelman and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, The Arab of the Future is an autobiographical and political graphic novel. 4 (280 pp.) – full color – format 170 x 240 mm – published between 20/22
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