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.
- ISBN10 0573709882
- ISBN13 9780573709883
- Publish Date 2 October 2023
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Samuel French Ltd
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 84
- Language English