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Questa è la storia vera di uno scolaretto biondo e della sua famiglia nella Siria di Hafiz Al-Asad.
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- Pagine: 157
- Data di uscita: 13-07-2017
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One of the best comics of the year, no question! In Volume 2, Riad, in his father’s hometown of Homs, Syria, goes to school for the first time. He's maybe 6? Not much of huge significance seems to happen at first, it's quite episodic, but over 152 pages you get indelible impressions of what it was li Leggi tutto
As a Syrian, I found a lot of exaggerations in the description, it is true that there are underdeveloped persons in Syria but not to this degree. Mr. Sattouf treated a segment of society that represents a very rare case. He showed the people as barbarians who are far from civilization entirely, dirt Leggi tutto
Riad starts school in Syria while his mother demands modern appliances for their flat, sending her husband to the city to buy a washing machine and gas stove. Riad’s father begins making connections with important officials and plans for his family’s luxury villa… Riad Sattouf’s The Arab of the Futu Leggi tutto
Volume II is a continuation of the adventures of Riad as a young French-Arab in Homs in the mid-1980s. Riad is still a child, blond-haired and six years old. He is ready to go to school for the first time, and is terrified. With good reason, it turns out. Sattouf positively outdoes himself drawing sc Leggi tutto
4,5*
In this second part, the very slow pace of this autobiographical graphic novel is particularly striking (Riad is now 6 and 7 years old, we are back in Syria); as a result, the pedagogical aspect of this novel becomes more visible: Sattouf wants to give the reader (undoubtedly the Western reader) ins Leggi tutto
The books in the graphic memoir series “The Arab of the Future” make me feel like a child about to read the new Harry Potter or see the new Star Wars film. I look forward to them with so much anticipation and read each new volume immediately. The second volume is published in the UK this week! These Leggi tutto
you take a young Syrian, you give him a good education, he leaves in France, marries a french woman and behaves like a french person. Now you bring him in Syria, with friends and family around, violence and radicalism, and he becomes a different person. This is scary and shows that unfortunately edu Leggi tutto
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