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Funny In Farsi
by Dumas, Firoozeh
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1400060400
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060405
- Seller
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Boise, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
NY: Villard, 2003. 1st Edition, full number Line . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Subtitle, "a memoir of growing up Iranian in America. Signed by Dumas on 1/2 title page " Enjoy! Firoozeh Dumas July 21,2003." A very scarce signed first edition, first book by this well thought of writer, showing the number code (as in use till 2006 by Random and it's creatures, ie Villard) of 2 thru 10 and a first edition statement. No marking or remainder marks. Unbumped. Book short of perfect, faint hard to see wear indications, may have been read once. Tiny faint micro stain top edge of text. Jacket has 2 notable flaws, trace creasing at upper flap corners, very mild, and tiny nicks at jackets lower front and corner. Will shoot and ship in new mylar wrapper. All our jackets are placed in new wrappers for shipping. *We feel that books offered for internet sale should be described thoroughly and accurately. Books listed by Brass Dolphin are so described, and graded, using the strict, traditional standards. For this reason, we have virtually zero returns.*
Synopsis
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas's wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later lost his job during the Iranian revolution; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to); her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot. In a series of deftly drawn scenes, we watch the family grapple with American English (hot dogs and hush puppies?--a complete mystery), American traditions (Thanksgiving turkey?--an even greater mystery, since it tastes like nothing), and American culture (Firoozeh's parents laugh uproariously at Bob Hope on television, although they don't get the jokes even when she translates them into Farsi).Above all, this is an unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love. It is a book that will leave us all laughing--without an accent.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Brass DolphinBooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6727
- Title
- Funny In Farsi
- Author
- Dumas, Firoozeh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition, full number Line
- ISBN 10
- 1400060400
- ISBN 13
- 9781400060405
- Publisher
- Villard
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2003
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography/Autobiography/Memoir;
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About Brass DolphinBooks
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