TALES FROM THE ZIRZAMEEN - Hardcover

Appleton, Brian Hanson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0692846905 ISBN 13: 9780692846902

Verlag: Brian H Appleton, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

This book is a non fiction autobiographical account of an American expat's experiences with Iranians and Iran. It is a series of 12 short stories in chronological order. At age eleven he went to boarding school in Rome with the grandson of Sardar Homayoun who was offered the monarchy of Iran by the British rather than Reza Shah but he turned it down because he dwas a freind of the last Qajar King Ahmad Shah and a coup would have invoved killing his compatriots. The author went to Iran for the first time alone and stayed with the family of his best friend for the summer of 1966. He then went on to work in Iran from 1974 to 1979. His experienc in Iran was unlike the typcial foreign workers experience because of the connections his host family had to all the old aristocracy of Iran. He acted in films and socialized with members of the royal family. He became assistant manager of a ship duilding company and helped obtain tariff protection for the nascent Iranian ship building industry during his employ. He worked for Bell helicopter International in their employee and community relations department with responsibilities of a crisis officer, helping American guest workers get out of difficulties and helping to evacuate over 2000 people during the revolution of 1979 during which he was briefly taken hostage. he stayed on for five months after the revolution as he had become completely assimilated into Iranian culture and did not want to leave. He declined an arranged marriage into one of the most respected aristocratic families whose patriarch had been prime minister 13 times under two different dynasties. Finally he had to leave as foreigners were no longer being allowed to work in Iran. In 2008 he returned for the summer to relocate old friends and to observe the pros and cons fo post revolutionary Iran and to enjoy the Iranian people and culture which no regime can change.

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Born Tokyo, Japan 1950 of American parents of Norwegian and Russian Jewish ethnicity. Grew up in Greece and Italy. Worked in Iran 5 years from 1974-1979.Was briefly taken hostage during the 1979 revolution and stayed on 5 months after. First travelled to Iran alone at 16 in 1966 and spent summer there. Last visited in 2008 summer. Author has written 5 books. First one Tales from the Zirzameen is about his personal experiences in Iran. Second one Shamshone; Sun of Assyria is about the Assyrian Christian minority in iran as told through the eyes of one family for five generations. Two volumes of Poetry: "1000 Years at the bottom of a well; reflections of a soul" and "Another Thousand Years" and one childrens book of the early Greek myths illustrated by the author, narrative by his late mother.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Brian H Appleton
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0692846905
• ISBN 13: 9780692846902
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 190
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