The Arab of the Future 4

Resumen del libro

The penultimate installment in the bestselling French graphic memoir series?hailed as exquisitely illustrated and irresistible ?covering the years of Riad Sattouf's adolescence, from 1987-1992.

In the fourth volume of The Arab of the Future, little Riad has grown into a teenager. In the previous books, his childhood was complicated by the pull of his two cultures?French and Syrian?and his parents' deteriorating relationship. Now his father, Adbel-Razak, has left to take a job in Saudi Arabia, and after making a pilgrimage to Mecca, turns increasingly towards religion. But after following him from place to place and living for years under the harsh conditions of his impoverished village, Riad's mother Clementine has had enough. Refusing to live in a country where women have no rights, she returns with her children to live in France with her own mother until Abdel-Razak shows up unexpectedly to drag the family on yet another journey.

As the series builds to a climax, we see Riad struggle with problems both universal (bullies at school) and specific (his mother's sudden illness, the judgment of his religious relatives). And as Abdel-Razak returns again to the same fantastical dreams he pursued in previous books, we see him become more and more unhinged, until ultimately he crosses the line from idealism to fanaticism, leading to a dramatic breaking point.

Full of the same gripping storytelling and lush visual style for which Sattouf's previous works have won numerous awards, The Arab of the Future 4 continues the saga of the Sattouf family and their peripatetic life in France and the Middle East.

Biografía del autor

Nació en París en 1978. Tras formarse en bellas artes ingresó en la escuela Pivaut de Nantes y posteriormente en la escuela de animación de Gobelins. En 2003 ganó un premio del Festival de Angulema al mejor guión por su primera serie, x{0026} x02018;Las pobres aventuras de Jeremíasx{0026} x02019; Y en 2010 volvió a ser galardonado en ese evento, esta vez al mejor álbum por el tercer tomo de la historieta satírica x{0026} x02018;Pascal Brutalx{0026} x02019;. x{0026} x02018;La Vida secreta de los jóvenesx{0026} x02019;, x{0026} x02018;Los cuadernos de Estherx{0026} x02019; y, sobre todo, los cuatro volúmenes de x{0026} x02018;El árabe del futurox{0026} x02019; ( mejor álbum en Angoulema) son sus grandes éxitos en España y en más de veinte paises. Estas dos últimas están planificadas por Canal+ para ser llevadas al cine.