A Beginner's Guide to Acting English

✍ Scribed by Khorsandi, Shappi

• Publisher: Ebury Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It's 1977 and life in Iran is becoming unpredictable. The Shah will be overthrown and events are about to take place on the world stage. But for five-year-old Shappi Khorsandi all this means is that she must flee, leaving behind a mad extended Iran clan and everything she has ever known.;Part 1 -- London Calling -- London -- Hyde Park -- Back in Iran -- Marcourt Lawns -- A New Guest at the Party -- Part 2 -- Montpelier School -- Cinema Rex -- Masood -- 16 January 1979 -- Asghar Agha -- Just Like Her Father -- Iran -- Iraq War -- Madeley Road -- Madar Jaan -- Nativity Play -- Assembly -- Being English -- Onstage -- Mahsa -- Part 3 -- Getting Older -- Brainwashing -- Rana Dean -- The Phone Call -- Terrorists in Madeley Road -- With Enemies Like These -- Safe at Home -- Rows About Cheese -- Scholars -- Rana -- Refugees -- Epilogue: A New Arrival -- Postscript: Mykonos.

✦ Table of Contents

Part 1 --
London Calling --
London --
Hyde Park --
Back in Iran --
Marcourt Lawns --
A New Guest at the Party --
Part 2 --
Montpelier School --
Cinema Rex --
Masood --
16 January 1979 --
Asghar Agha --
Just Like Her Father --
Iran --
Iraq War --
Madeley Road --
Madar Jaan --
Nativity Play --
Assembly --
Being English --
Onstage --
Mahsa --
Part 3 --
Getting Older --
Brainwashing --
Rana Dean --
The Phone Call --
Terrorists in Madeley Road --
With Enemies Like These --
Safe at Home --
Rows About Cheese --
Scholars --
Rana --
Refugees --
Epilogue: A New Arrival --
Postscript: Mykonos.

✦ Subjects

Exiles;Exiles--Great Britain;Exiles--Iran;Iranians;Iranians--Great Britain;Manners and customs;Race relations;Biographies;Biography;Khorsandi, Shappi, -- 1973- -- Childhood and youth;Exiles -- Iran -- Biography;Exiles -- Great Britain -- Biography;Iranians -- Great Britain -- Biography;London (England) -- Social life and customs;London (England) -- Race relations;Khorsandi, Shappi, -- 1973-;England -- London;Great Britain;Iran