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This book is a non fiction .autobiographical account of an American expat's experiences with iranians and iran. it is a series of 12 short stories in chronological order. At age eleven he went to boarding school in Rome with the grandson of Sardar Homayoun who was offered the monarchy of iran by the British rather than Reza Shah but he turned it down because he dwas a freind of the last Qajar King Ahmad Shah and a coup would have invoved killing his compatriots. The author went to iran for the first time alone and stayed with the family of his best friend for the summer of 1966. He then went on to work in iran from 1974 to 1979. His experienc in iran was unlike the typcial foreign workers experience because of the connections his host family had to all the old aristocracy of iran. He acted in films and socialized with members of the royal family. He became assistant manager of a ship duilding company and helped obtain tariff protection for the nascent iranian ship building industry during his emplo