Abbas Kazerooni
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On Two Feet and Wings di Abbas Kazerooni
The author did a great job capturing the viewpoint of his younger self and provided a magnificent narration as well. So glad that this audiobook was one of the SYNC offerings as I probably would never have heard of it otherwise.
½YA audio sync summer program work about the author's immigrant experience when parents sent him out of Iran at the age of 9. He was in Turkey until he could get his Visa. The story is good but I could have used more information. What was happening to his parents while he was gone. What happened after. He dedicates this work to his mother's memory. It's a great story. He was lucky that so many people did things to help him and he is lucky that he was so mature for his age.
I listened to this novel from the Audiobook Sync books from this past summer. It’s a memoir of Abbas (read by the author) who has to leave Iran without his parents and spend months in Istanbul alone.
Before the 1980s, Abbas’ family was wealthy, but life changes when the politics changes in 1979. Now children are recruited to the army as early as ages 10 and 11. Abbas’ father won’t be allowed out of Iran, but he hopes Abbas can leave. Abbas’ mother is supposed to leave as well. Unfortunately, the government only allows Abbas to leave. He ends up in Istanbul, Turkey completely alone. A kind and honest taxi driver gets him to an Iranian friendly hotel where the owner treats Abbas well.
Abbas’ intelligence helps him. His father had taught both Abbas and Abbas’ mother what to do in Turkey as far as exchanging money and getting a visa to get to England. Abbas, alone, is able to navigate due to this knowledge and his own smarts. He’s a very likeable kid. The question throughout the memoir is whether he will get his visa to get to England. While waiting, he has a scary and lonely existence, as he is alone at the age of ten in a very large city where he doesn’t speak the language! You’ll be impressed with what he is able to accomplish.
I liked Abbas and am thankful that I don’t live in such a volatile area. I would have liked to have known what happened to many of the people in the book, including his parents, in the years after.… (altro)
Before the 1980s, Abbas’ family was wealthy, but life changes when the politics changes in 1979. Now children are recruited to the army as early as ages 10 and 11. Abbas’ father won’t be allowed out of Iran, but he hopes Abbas can leave. Abbas’ mother is supposed to leave as well. Unfortunately, the government only allows Abbas to leave. He ends up in Istanbul, Turkey completely alone. A kind and honest taxi driver gets him to an Iranian friendly hotel where the owner treats Abbas well.
Abbas’ intelligence helps him. His father had taught both Abbas and Abbas’ mother what to do in Turkey as far as exchanging money and getting a visa to get to England. Abbas, alone, is able to navigate due to this knowledge and his own smarts. He’s a very likeable kid. The question throughout the memoir is whether he will get his visa to get to England. While waiting, he has a scary and lonely existence, as he is alone at the age of ten in a very large city where he doesn’t speak the language! You’ll be impressed with what he is able to accomplish.
I liked Abbas and am thankful that I don’t live in such a volatile area. I would have liked to have known what happened to many of the people in the book, including his parents, in the years after.… (altro)
So...I get that this is a memoir and all, but even still, shouldn't there be...conflict of some kind? Everyone is nice to him. Everyone helps hims. No one swindles him. Aside from a little scuffle that was over within a sentence nothing really happens. Boy goes to Turkey. Makes friends with everyone. Gets a couple side jobs. Goes to Britain. Ta-da?
Very weak.
Very weak.
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