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| Title | : | The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir (L'Arabe du futur #1) |
| Author | : | Riad Sattouf |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 156 pages |
| Published | : | October 20th 2015 by Metropolitan Books (first published May 15th 2014) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Bande Dessinée. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir |
Riad Sattouf
Paperback | Pages: 156 pages Rating: 4.03 | 9252 Users | 910 Reviews
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The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators—Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his fatherIn striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, and Assad's Syria--but always under the roof of his father, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation.
Riad, delicate and wide-eyed, follows in the trail of his mismatched parents; his mother, a bookish French student, is as modest as his father is flamboyant. Venturing first to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab State and then joining the family tribe in Homs, Syria, they hold fast to the vision of the paradise that always lies just around the corner. And hold they do, though food is scarce, children kill dogs for sport, and with locks banned, the Sattoufs come home one day to discover another family occupying their apartment. The ultimate outsider, Riad, with his flowing blond hair, is called the ultimate insult… Jewish. And in no time at all, his father has come up with yet another grand plan, moving from building a new people to building his own great palace.
Brimming with life and dark humor, The Arab of the Future reveals the truth and texture of one eccentric family in an absurd Middle East, and also introduces a master cartoonist in a work destined to stand alongside Maus and Persepolis.
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| Original Title: | L'Arabe du futur : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1978–1984) |
| ISBN: | 1627793445 (ISBN13: 9781627793445) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://thearabofthefuture.com |
| Series: | L'Arabe du futur #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics (2015), Prix du Festival d'Angoulême for Fauve d'or du meilleur album (2015), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee for Best Reality-Based Work (2016) |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 9252 Users | 910 ReviewsCritique Epithetical Books The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir (L'Arabe du futur #1)
Like Art Spiegelmans Maus and Alison Bechdels Fun Home, Riad Sattoufs The Arab of the Future (yep, weird title!) is as much a memoir as it is an attempt to come to terms with a father of the... um... uh... challenging variety. Sattoufs cartooning is more fluid, relaxed, and humorous than that of his American colleagues, though, almost jazzy. It communicates openness, flexibility, and empathy qualities we could use more of in Muslim-Western relations these days. And these Muslim-WesternIt seems that the Middle Eastern memoir graphic novel is proliferating. I've lost count of how many I've read over the past couple of years. I'm not sure if more of them are being published, or just that more of them are being released in English translations after Marjane Satrapi's success. I'm not complaining, just curious. So, as the subtitle implies, this is Riad's story of growing up in Libya and Syria, so his family got to experience the rule of both Gaddafi AND Assad. It appears that it
Male Persepolis, but in Syria and Libya. I'm interested to see where this story goes in the next four volumes.
My first graphic novel of 2017. Riad Sattouf takes us on a magic carpet toward his childhood in France, Libya, and Syria. He draws his childhood in a cartoonish way under the shadow of Gaddafi, Hafez Assad, and his father. We see the world through his eyes. The eyes of a blonde boy struggling with the Middle East and have no idea what is going on around him. I enjoyed the drawings, the political interpretations and the way media is used in this memoir. The way he draws the news reels and the
Jugs & Capes (my all-girl graphic-novel book club) has been hankering to read this one for awhile. We had really, really mixed opinions about it this book has such an intense realism, illuminating lands with which none of us are familiar, but it does so in a remarkably damning, ugly way. At club we talked a lot about the responsibility of the artist: whether a member of a marginalized group is required to consider and/or represent the entire vast spectrum of that group in his or her
The title is serious as is the book.If we didn't know the future of little Riad it would be hard to guess, but the future of his cousins is clear.This doesn't have the punch of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima or Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History, which portray everyday people in big moments of history. Sattouf describes the day to day drone of life under dictatorship. He shows his father's cognitive dissonance as he
A memoir by a former cartoonist for Charlie Hebdo. Part to a French mother and Syrian father, it details his young childhood in Libya, Syria, and France as his father receives jobs as an associate professor. Told through a little boys eyes, we see the crazy, third-world conditions he grows up in under two dictators, first Gaddafi and then al-Aasad. It's as much his father's story as his own as he comes home and complains to his family every evening. His father was a complicated man, one of the
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