At the Café de la Mairie, in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, he sat on the terrace wrapped in a black down jacket, sipping a Perrier.
Riad Sattouf can thus observe the people passing by at leisure, and even smile when a tipsy customer holding his dog on a leash wants to pay his bill a second time, before leaving in the night, zigzagging.
We know that the author of
The Arab of the Future
does not lose a crumb of the little nothings of life, and that, who knows, this skit will end up in one of his comic strips.
We immediately feel Riad Sattouf, 44, soothed by the idea of having published the sixth and final part of
The Arab of the Future
, his comic book series, where he recounts in great detail his youth in the Middle East between 1978 and 2011. The first five volumes have sold more than three million copies, and are now translated into twenty-three languages.
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As a joke, it is said that with such a saga he is getting closer to J. K. Rowling.
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