Leírás
How to be an Alien is a very impolite and humorous view of the strange habits of the British people, given by an outsider. With frank and open humour Mikes attacks the British for everything from ruining tea to being hypocritical. At the same time Mikes offers guidelines to foreigners on how to cope as a stranger in Britain.
Nobody escapes his wry and sometimes cutting wit, as he ruthlessly makes fun of people’s habits. He makes the reader laugh by seeing himself as he must appear to the British: ‘I have such funny foreign ways’. Beneath the guise of laughing at the habits of the British people, Mikes mocks human nature in general.
