A Beginner's Guide To Acting English by Shappi Khorsandi

Hilarious and heartwarming, this memoir is the story of growing up in a strange land where you don't speak the language, everyone smells like milk, and to top it off, the Ayatollah wants you and your family dead In the tradition of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love and Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals , comes a story of a young narrator in the midst of her eccentric family. But rather than landed gentry or bohemian travelers, it's a mad extended Iran clan who flee Tehran to 1980s Britain after the fall the Shah. Five year old Shappi and her beloved brother Peyvand arrive with their parents in London--all cold weather and strange food--without a word of English.

Publisher:	Ebury Press
Year:	2010
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780091924775
Condition:	Good
Description:	Crease to back cover.

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SKU: 1594386
Location: Biography