The Arab of the Future 3: Volume 3: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1985-1987 - A Graphic Memoir

PRAISE FOR THE ARAB OF THE FUTURE SERIES

I tore through two volumes of The Arab of the Future... The most enjoyable graphic novel I've read in a while

- Zadie Smith

This is a masterpiece that deserves the widest readership. The Arab Of The Future reminds us that, in talented hands, graphic novels are capable of carrying the weightiest themes, making us think, and touching our hearts while also keeping us hugely entertained. Riad Sattouf is one of the great creators of our time - Alain De Botton

The Arab of the Future is wonderfully observed, funny, grim, sharp and sad. Riad Sattouf, with his ear for anecdote, his nimble drawing and his understanding of human frailty, has created a masterpiece. - Posy Simmonds

I joyously recommend this book to you. You will be moved, entertained and edified. Often simultaneously - Mark Haddon

Irresistible... Exceptionally good art. - New York Times

Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, the story captures wonderfully the disorientating effect of growing up between Arab and European cultures. Sattouf has a fine eye for the details and characters of his childhood in Syria, where the possibility of sudden violence was ever present - New Statesman

I really think Riad Sattouf could be the Marcel Proust of the illustrated form. Charming and subtle, The Arab of the Future opens a much-needed window onto the Syrian past. - Gary Perry, Foyles Staff Pick

Not since Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir of revolutionary Iran, has a comic book seemed so important, or been so acclaimed... There is a feeling that the book throws some light both on the roots of the Arab spring, and what has happened since. In a country - and beyond it, a world - in which bewilderment and anxiety at recent events polarises communities as often as it unites them, it has an authenticity with which no expert or talking head could ever hope to compete. - Observer