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The Boy with Two Lives

By Abbas Kazerooni

Book information

Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Year
2015
ISBN
9781743433614, 9781743314838, 9781743366899
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
816 kB (835240 bytes)
Series
The Abbas Kazerooni Memoirs
Pages
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Time added
2022-11-03 00:02:58
Biography & Autobiography; Young Adult Nonfiction;

Description

When ten-year-old Abbas arrives in England to start a new life - having just fled conscription into the Iranian army and survived almost three months alone in Istanbul, Turkey, waiting for a visa - he does not know that his troubles have only just begun. Abbas's cousin packs him off to boarding school, and infrequent phone calls are his only contact with his beloved mother in Iran. Things get worse when Abbas is threatened with deportation and forced to work through the nights during his school holidays to repay his 'debt', and worse still when, at the age of thirteen, he finds himself homeless. Abbas's extraordinary resilience in the face of overpowering odds makes this story based on true events from the internationally bestselling author of On Two Feet and Wings inspiring and unforgettable.

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