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Review ------ 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) I loved it (Rachel Cooke, Observer Graphic Book of the Month) Irresistible... Exceptionally good art. (New York Times) Sattouf experienced both Gaddafi's Libya and Hafez al-Assad's Syria while still a small boy. Kids don't spend a lot of time reflecting on totalitarianism, but they do form strong impressions. His simple depictions of living in an almost-abandoned building for expatriates in Libya, or of watching Assad praying on TV are the kind of banal micro-details that would lose their significance in written prose. Captured in the panels of a cartoon strip, however, they attain a luminous resonance that lingers long after you've finished the book. (Guardian) God bless whatever Proustian madeleine spurred Riad Sattouf to put pen to paper for his The Arab of the Future series . . . truly fantastic (Vulture) Excellent... The graphic novel has proved itself again and again. It already has its canon: Art Spiegelman on the Holocaust, Marjane Satrapi on girlhood in Islamist Iran, and, perhaps most accomplished of all, Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza, a work of detailed and self-reflexive history. Edging towards this company comes Riad Sattouf's childhood memoir of tyranny... It's this sort of detail, drawn with the cartoon clarity of childhood perception, that makes the book such a success... The Arab of the Future is an authentic, emotionally honest memoir, and much more useful background reading for present events than a romanticised account of cosmopolitan, bourgeois Damascus would be. (Guardian) 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) Book Description ---------------- VOLUME 3 IN THE BESTSELLING SERIES. The highly anticipated continuation of Riad Sattouf's internationally accled graphic memoir.