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 father
In 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