English -- Sanaz Toossi, Paperback

Winner! 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama

Winner! 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play

It's 2008, and four Iranians assemble triweekly in a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) class in Karaj, Iran. The students are led by Marjan, an anglophile who abolishes Farsi from her classroom. They translate Ricky Martin and endure major preposition confusion; they discover how to be funny in English and ponder what they will lose in the process. As the class slowly devolves into a linguistic mess, some students cling tighter to their mother tongue while others embrace the possibilities of a new language.

Author: Sanaz Toossi
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 07/28/2023
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.17d
ISBN: 9780573709883