L'Arabe du futur - Volume 6: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1994 - 2011)

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One day, he picks up one of the books, and realizes that his is able to decipher words from the squiggles. 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. Sattouf, whose mother is French and father is Syrian, zigzagged his way through childhood, moving between his parents’ respective homelands as well as Libya.

The details are salient and feel real, but a lot of the bigger context is missing; possibly purposely since Sattouf himself wouldn't have had context beyond snippets of news and overheard adult conversation at the time. We pride ourselves in being a community of local book lovers which allows our passion and devotion to shine in everything we do. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Merci, Riad d’avoir partagé avec nous tous ces moments drôles et sombres que vous avez réellement rendus extraordinaires. Each volume of L’Arabe du futur spans a different period from Sattouf’s youth and begins with a self-portrait. My lawyer took my savings, but my doctor said I have to give up smoked salmon, so I’ll be saving money! Riad is the eldest son of Clémentine, a reserved French woman, and Abdul-Razak Sattouf, a flamboyant Sunni-Syrian man. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The back cover informs the reader that this volume encompasses Sattouf’s early years of going to school in Syria. It a gues that Satouf s o k p odu es is e al a d e oio al ea io s that i te t i e to e oke a i t igui g o ple it of a use e t.While all of the volumes of L’Arabe du futur are personal, book 6 shows the author at his most vulnerable. Through this child’s eyes the social and political situation in Syria and Libya are sketched, but not judged. Both The Arab of the Future and La Vie Secrète des Jeunes are written from Sattouf's point of view, with the former describing his childhood and the latter his daily observations as an adult.