About Soore-ye Mehr Publishing House

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Soore-ye Mehr Publishing Company as an administrator of Hozeh Honari publications and also a place for manifestation of the productive works, has been responsible for all affairs related to planning of content design, technical production, publication and distribution of books, magazines and the other art- cultural products.

Additionally, directors of the company have always considering the policy making, controlling and directing art and cultural activities because of producing the high quality and effective works.
Having passed the establishment and stabilization period, Soore-ye Mehr publishing company has considered new one based on change and development in all technical, organizational and human aspects. In fact, Soore-ye Mehr Publishing Company is engaged in the activities to respond to the demands of the country as follows:

 Being familiar with Islamic revolution discourse by placing emphasis on the Islamic revolutionary and cultural values.
 Easy access to high quality and of great worth cultural products
– To fulfill the needs of the families to the cultural and perfect products.
– To support valuable works and to introduce new and committed figures.
– Streaming innovation in production and improving the processes of publishing market.

In addition, Soore-ye Mehr Publishing Company is decided to develop its markets to the global and international regions through publishing rich books in different foreign languages. Of the other major programs of this company is to emphasize on developing processes of the modern publishing industry including propagation and developing electronic publishing with the global and standard concept which is now implementing and becoming operational. 

FICTION

 

Baba Nazar

 

 

 

 

 

  

Author: Muhammad Hassan Nazarnezhad

Subject: Non-Fiction (Meomry)

Year of Publishing: 2017/54th Edition

No. of Pages: 520/Hardback

Size: 14 × 22

ISBN: 978 9645061485

◙ Sample English text is available.

 

 

 

 

About the Book:

Baba Nazar was an Iranian champion and wrestler who was well known among warriors with his strong and athletic body. He was born into a religious family. He spent his childhood with work and effort in his village. He was very interested in sports, especially in wrestling, and he won positions in this field. He was a virtue, believer, unobtrusive, and modest young man. With the onset of the war, he went to the front with his brother and participated in most of the combat operations. Mr. Nazarnezhad has noted and set in a notebook all the memoirs of the war and his days on the front. He was in the front for seven years and had disability more than 90%. He was shot by bullets and shrapnel shells more than 160 times. Upon the end of the war, he returned to the arms of the family. But the effects of injuries and shrapnel shells in his body forced him to travel to Germany in 1989 for treatment. In 1996, he was assigned a mission to visit the war zones in Kurdistan highlands. But due to cardiac arrest, he was martyred in Kurdistan’s highlands.

“Baba Nazar” book is the result of a 36-hour talk by the writer of the book with the martyr, Nazarnezhad, which has been compiled in 18 chapters. From the beginning to the end of the book, the narrative form is the first person singular and in the words of Mohammad Hassan Nazarnezhad and covers his birth until several months before his martyrdom chronically. In the first chapter, he narrates his family background. His revolutionary activities during the last years of the Pahlavi regime are the other parts of this chapter, which ends with the days of the revolution victory, and the role of Nazarnezhad in this regard is significant. The second chapter is devoted to the revolutionary activities of Baba Nazar in the early years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution. From the third chapter onwards, his memories recount his presence on the fronts of the Iraq-Iran war. In the next chapters of the book, Nazarnezhad recounts the battles and important events of the war in subsequent years and his role and presence in them and explains in detail about each of these events.

Book Expert:

Suddenly I saw one of the Iraqi tanks picking up from the other side and firing. The bullets hit in front of me. I rotated two and three meters on the air and hit the ground. My head became heavy. First I felt my head was separated from my body and because my body’s warm I can’t understand! The strange dust was dissipated. My signaler, called Jajarm, raised his voice and said, “Haji has not been martyred! Guys, go ahead. Haji has taken just a scratch. He gets up now and comes.” Suddenly, I saw Mr. Sadeghi and the battalion destroyer standing beside me.  

 

The Leg which has been Left

 

 

 

 

 

Author: Seyyed Naser Husseinipour

Subject: Non-Fiction (Meomry)

Year of Publishing: 2015/54th Edition

No. of Pages: 767/Hardback

Size: 14 × 22

ISBN: 978 9001752247

◙ English, Arabic and Urdu language are available.

◙ The book was honored by the supreme leader of Iran.

About the Book:

In this book, the story of courage of 119 Iranian soldiers against the armed to teeth enemy has been narrated. The first two chapter of this book is about the events of Majnoon Island and Khandagh Road and set to time and place conditions and the war circumstances before the writer being captured and how he was captured. Chapters three through fourteen include the memories of this internee during his captivity. In these chapters, the internees’ hard living conditions, the behavior of guardians and their inhumane torture, and the patience and endurance of internees and their efforts are expressed. During these chapters, the writer describes the interrogations and commuting of himself and some of the internees to other camps and internees’ activities, as well as the activities of the People’s Mojahedin Organization (one of the Iranian opposition organizations abroad) in the camps.

“The Leg Which Has Been Left” is one of the most impressive works in the field of Holy Defense literature, which, after supreme leader’s epigram on the sidelines of the book, has been published in the nineteenth edition in less than 3 months and set a record. “The Leg Which Has Been Left” has been re-published more than 62 times. The book has also been translated into various foreign languages and is available to foreign audiences.

About the Author

Seyyed Naser Husseinpour (1971-Gachsaran) is one of the brave Iranian warriors who participated in war zones for defending the country and his beliefs during the war between Iran and Iraq, and he captured by enemy forces during a combat operation. He is one of the warriors trying to narrate his memories in the form of books for recording epic times throughout the war. Seyyed Naser HUsseinipour is also a Cultural Manager in Iran and is currently in the secretariat of the Supreme National Security Council.

Hanabandan Ceremony

 

 

Author: Muhammad Hussein Ghadami

Subject: Non-Fiction (Memory)

Year of Publishing: 2016/13th Edition

No. of Pages: 415/Hardback

Size: 14 × 22

ISBN: 978 9645061799

*Sample English text is available.

About the Book:

 The book “Hanabandan Ceremony” includes two reports of two combat operations in the south and west regions of the country, compiled by Muhammad Hussein Ghadami, among the memories of the warriors of “27th Mohammad Rasoolullah Division”. The first report of the book was written during the Operation Karbala-5, and its second report relates to the Operation Beit ol-Moqaddas 4 and in the western regions of the country and a part of Iraqi territory. The book in the first report tries to report the stages of enrollment and dispatch to the front, preparing and training in the garrison, the writer’s acquaintance with his companions, his explanations of the nights and days at the camp, the letters of the elementary school students to the warriors, their enthusiasm for going to the operational areas, their waiting for being dispatched to the front line, and warriors’ morale. In the second part of the book, the writer describes topics such as Operation Valfajr-5 and the situation in Halabche, the commanders and operational areas, the damage to his eyes, martyrdom of warriors and their testimonies, and his farewell to the front. The tune of and eloquence of the narrative, attraction, and fascination of the story, and most importantly the content presented in the book have made this work as one of the lasting works in the field of war reporting

Book Expert:

As soon as we were allowed to leave, like a bird released from a cage, we did not wait for a left sheet, and we came out with loose clothes. The bright sunlight did not allow blinking. We just sat in a corner inevitably in order that our eyes got accustomed to the light. Before a nurse saw and a doctor noticed us, we should go and sneak away. My hand in my friend’s hand and another hand on the wall, we went gropingly. It was a red situation and the siren sound was heard. We couldn’t see and we didn’t have a shelter. We trusted in God and continued on. The city was silent and slow. Only occasionally the sound of a car was heard but was lost very soon. There was no one to take our hands and take us to a safe place. O, God! Oh, helper the defenseless and the chemical injured! Witness the innocence of your blind servants and take care of us.

About the Author:

Muhammad Hussein Ghadami (1951-Tehran) is a teacher and writer. He has joined the writers of the Office Resistance Literature and Art at the Hozeh-ye Honari Institute since 1988 and has been in charge of the program “Memory Night of the Holy Defense” at this office in 1992. His style in fictional literature is report writing and memory writing. The works that he has written in this area is a report writing of the memories of the Iran-Iraq war. He himself participated in most of the operations of this war. As an honest witness, he likes to immortalize the memories of his companions by recording their courage.

His Works:

Memory Night

Hanabandan Ceremony

Barefoot War

Author: Rahim Makhdoomi

Subject: Fiction (novel)

Year of Publishing: 2014/15th Edition

No. of Pages: 154/Paperback

Size: 14 × 22

ISBN: 978 9645061942

*Sample English text is available.

About the Book:

The book “Barefoot War” is a narrative of the war, the warriors who stood against armed to teeth enemy and bend over backward. In return to home, they get bored of the materiality of the society and continue to live in their huts against palaces of the rich in the lap of luxury. In his memoirs, the writer quotes the pain of those who have provided youth, health, and well-being, of themselves and their families for the Islamic revolution, but in return, they are subject to unkindness. In his memoirs, he described surrounding of warriors by Iraqi forces, breaking the surround with the sacrifice of one of the warriors, the martyrdom of the commander of the battalion, the situation of the wounded, the warming up, retreating, the situation and condition of all his companions in the combat operation, and their efforts and the memory of his companion martyrs. In the end, he speaks of his return to Tehran after accepting Resolution 598 and his normal life as a teacher.

This book has 24 stories and at the beginning of each story, there is a verse from the Quran that is related to the story. The writer portrays beautifully the hard life of the barefoot warriors alongside the colorful swampy life of the rich. The book is a reflection of the suffering of barefooted people, which, in comparison to the sacrifice of them, seems to be painful, bitter and unacceptable. In other narratives of this front, the most prominent and sweet thing is the humility and neglecting their works against the work of others who have tried and wore on other fronts but against the same enemy and for the love of God. Although the danger is not the same in all fields, they should not consider all those who were not present in the front as earthly people with earthy attachments, and they should not le the others down because of the trouble and suffering that they themselves have born for the sake of God. These traits are pure and the righteous. The book “Barefoot War” is written in the form of daily notes, but relies on narrative-fiction techniques.

Book Expert:

Here is Aqaba battalion. The main bath is here. Every day, the food car brings a number of guys to bathe here. Meanwhile, the reserve troop rests here. It is said that groups of Tehran citizens have come to visit the fronts, and a group will come here today. It is said that some chefs have also come to cook a meal for warriors. Today the goods truck has also come. The truck was full of the granted goods from the prayers of the Mosque in Tehran. Mousapour has brought lemon juice and black shawls for the battalion. Muharram in this year will be held in the hearts of the guys because the community behind the frontline is problematic.

About the Author:

Rahim Makhdumi (1966-Varamin) is a teacher and writer who was eager to write when he was about the age of adolescence.His first book was released in the year 1989. His writings are inspired by the life and character of Iranian warriors, those in the Iran-Iraq war, in particular. Makhdumi has penned various books in the field of sacred defense literature including novel, short story and drama. Among them are:

Who will take the trigger,The Bare foot fight,Those who pass away, Dreams and memories,Runaway teacher, Everyone works itself

 

Da (Mother)

Author: A’zam Husseini

Subject: Non-Fiction (Memory)

Year of Publishing: 2017/156th Edition

No. of Pages: 812/Hardback

Size: 14 × 22

ISBN: 978 964506482

*English text is available.

*Awarded in Martyr Ghanipour Literary Prize

*Awarded in Jalal Ale- Ahmad Literary Prize

*Awarded in the Book of Year in Iran

About the Book:

Seyyedeh Zahra Husseini (narrator) is an Iranian Kurd whose parents lived in Iraq before her birth. After she was born, her family returned to Iran, and his father settled in Khorramshahr and after a long time wandered, he was hired as a dustman in the municipality. She was the second child among six children of the family. Her family, especially her father, was strictly adhered to religion, and she was raised with such beliefs. She, along with his older brother, Ali, participated in the activities of the revolution and afterwards. For help and service, she chose the graveyard and burial and funeral of martyrs of war. On the first day, she becomes weak and faint. One of the peaks of the story is when she puts his martyred father in the grave and gave farewell to him. 7 days later, she put his older brother, who was also martyred, in the grave and gave farewell to him, a brother who had a lot of potential and actual abilities and was a favorite of the family. She hides her brother’s death from her mother to take her mother out of the city. She becomes a rescuer and fought the Ba’athist enemy with two guys of her age until she was injured at the front line and sent to the hospital. From then on, she recounts the problems of war refugees and treachery during the war.

The book “Da” is the memoirs of Seyyedeh Zahra Husseini from the war and the situation in Khorramshahr during the early days of the war, a 17-year-old girl whose life changes at the beginning of the war. It is a believable narrative, with a unique setting, so that readers see themselves on the streets of Khorramshahr. What inspires the reader’s respect and admiration is that the narrator does things that others refuse to do or underestimate them. “Da” means “mother” in the local dialect and by selecting this title Ms. Husseini wanted to remind suffering, sadness, effort, and resistance of Iranian mothers. The book provides an overview of the duration of the war and the situation of the refugees in different cities. The language and the text of the book are relevant to the subject matter and it is fluent. What makes this book unique is the expression of angles of the war that have never been addressed before. This book expresses the peak of disasters of the war, along with an angle of the history of our country. The book “Da”, in addition to ID, dedication page, and table of contents, this book is composed of an introduction, five sections, and forty chapters, attachments, photos, and concordance.

About the Author:

Seyyedeh A’zam Husseini (1972-Tehran) is a graduate of Jurisprudence and Foundations of Law. During her years of continuous activity and expertise, she has performed memoirs of Iranian women on war fronts with audio, visual and written interviews in the area of war memoir writing. He has done more than 20 research trips to complete war studies and to create a ground for the formation of documentary memories.

War City Stories

 

Author: Habib Ahmadzadeh

Subject: Fiction (Novel)

Year of Publishing: 2011/18th Edition

No. of Pages: 189/Paperback

Size: 14 × 22

ISBN: 978 9645062802

*English text is available.

*English, Russian, Arabic and French texts are available,

*Selected as the best book on the subject of holly defense (1999)

About the Book:

A soldier, after 11 years, wrote a letter to an Iraqi soldier, stating that their son, who had been a member of the Special Forces-23 of the Iraqi Presidential Guards, while escaping, was killed by their own forces and the Iranian soldier buried him, and he had saved the Iranian soldier while Iraqi forces were shooting.

The stories of this book are all realistic and have been narrated in two ways: one is by quotation or in the form of a second singular, and the other is the first person sometimes expressed as a dramatic soliloquy. Another feature of some of these stories is that they are narrative. In these stories, humans are equal in terms of individuality and position on both sides of the war. Ahmadzadeh is trying to create people who, apart from the political ideas and military conditions that put them against each other, have chosen humanity in their bottlenecks to overcome this difficult path. In this collection, we have come up with a unique writing style by Ahmadzadeh; using short, but uninterrupted sentences that connect with each other using simple conjunctions. This writing style, with suspense and excitement, brings the reader. Stories have concepts and thoughts other than the apparent subject, and they contain a simple and fluent prose and language. Themes are the other outstanding points of these stories. Also, the titles of some of the stories are worth attention, like “Thirty Nine and One Internees” and “Eagle’s Feather”, which can clarify the story for a typical audience who has not understood the underlying layer of the story. One of the other privileges of these stories is the plot of the stories, which have turned into a script because of their strong idea.

The book “War City Stories” contains 8 short stories and their titles are:

Eagle’s Feather – Airplane – Thirty-Nine and One Internees – Warrior Escape – A Letter to Saad’s Family – If There Was Not Darya Gholi – I Will Endure the Weight of This Load to the End – The Letter to the Writer to the American Military and Their Response.

About the Author:

Habib Ahmadzadeh (1964-Abadan), an Iranian novelist, documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, assistant director and researcher, is an MA in dramatic literature from Tehran Art University and a Ph.D. in Art Research at Tarbiat Modares University. He is featured in movies such as The Best Statue of the World, The One Who Goes to the Sea, Talking to the Shadow, Trilogy Narrative, The Night Bus, Minoo Watch Tower, The Last 50 Steps, Like a Story, The Glass Agency, and Retribution as director, scriptwriter, plot presenter, director consultant, and screenwriting consultant.

Some of the Works: Chess with Resurrection Car, War City Stories, Code 24

 

Daughter of Shina

Author: Behnaz Zarrabizadeh

Subject: Non-Fiction (Memory)

Year of Publishing: 2017/16th Edition

No. of Pages: 264/Paperback

Size: 14 × 22

ISBN: 9786001752629

 *English text is available.

About the Book:

At the beginning of the story, the narrator’s childhood days are narrated in her village. She was named “Ghadam Kheir” because she brought luckiness, and she was deeply concerned by her parents, Haji Agha and Shirin Jan, and she is more interested in her father than everybody. This interest made her not willing to get married and she was trying to get rid of marriage anyway. But the presence of Samad and his proposal to “Ghadam Kheir” and the mediation of the neighborhood elders suddenly bring this favorite teen girl to a much deeper and wider world than her children’s home. Before marrying Samad (whose original name is “Sattar”), Ghadam Kheir flees, again and again, his look, as if from the very beginning, separation and desolation have been destined in their fate. Samad joined military service. After marrying, he traveled from the village to Tehran for working but returned for a few days. Shortly thereafter, the Revolution of 1979 and the uprising of the people distanced between them. Then the war began and eventually the martyrdom separated them until Ghadam Kheir’s death. As if from the very beginning of her marriage, Ghadam Kheir had gone to her solitude home. In the various parts of the book, we observe her worry and impatience. However, she seems she has accepted her fate, accepted Samad’s absences and bad promises in the critical moments of her life, including the births of her children, although sometimes the life pressure comes out of her bearing, but for the sake of her children, she is resistant and firm and takes her life steering in the stormy ocean of the fate. The book “Daughter of Shina” is the memories of Ghadam Kheir Muhammadi, the wife of Martyr Sattar Ebrahimi. This book is the story of the love life of a rural girl living in the days of the war, and despite belonging to the literature of resistance and war, it is a work that narrates life with all its hardships and pleasures.

Book Expert:

I went to the kitchen. I turned on the water heater. He came and started telling, “The Iraqis have entered Khorramshahr. Khorramshahr has declined. We have had very martyrs. Abadan is surrounded by Iraqis and is under shots and mortars every day.” I asked. “Did you eat dinner?” He said, “No, I have no appetite.”

Some of the lunch had remained. I heated it for him. I spread out the tablecloth and put a bowl of yogurt and a plate of vegetables that the landlord had brought in the evening on the tablecloth, and served the meal for him. It was some Eshkeneh (Iranian meal). When he ate a little, his eyes became red. I asked, “Is it hot?”

About the Author:

Behnaz Zarabizadeh (1968-Hamedan) is one of the most talented and active Iranian women writers who have been able to create valuable works, especially in writing diaries about the events of the Iran-Iraq war. Welcomed by Iranian readers and literary circles. In addition to the book’s compilation, Zarrabizadeh has worked closely with the cultural institutions active in the field of sacred defense literature.  So far, more than 250 literary works and stories have been published in periodicals including magazines and other publications, and dozens of titles have been published, among which are the followings: Girl of Shina (Shina’s daughter), Sooreh Mehre, The Eleventh Rosary, Sooreh Mehre, Haji’s District, Sooreh Mehre, Shell Bird (Shell’s chicken), Sooreh Mehre, Snowman, O’rooj Publishing House, It was Tuesday, Sarir Publishing House

Behnaz Zarrabizadeh has won numerous honors and awards from literary festivals including: The first place in the reader’s and adolescent story, Admired in two rounds of Isfahan Literary Award, Admired n the ninth and tenth courses of the Holy Defense Writers Festival,….

Secret of the Red Gemstone

 

 

 

 

 

Author: Hamid Hesam

Subject: Non-Fiction (Memory)

Year of Publishing: 2017/16th Edition

No. of Pages: 264/Paperback

Size: 14 × 22

ISBN: 9786001752629

*English text is available.

*Awarded as the best book during the 20th years of fiction in Iran.

About the Book:

Mahmud Shahbazi was one of the great commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. He played a key role during the revolutionary struggles. During the return of Imam Khomeini, he joined the Defense Committee and then joined the Revolutionary Guard Corps, and while studying in the university, he worked at Headquarters Coordination Office of Guard Corps. After the war began, he headed to the war zones, and later he was appointed as the commander of the Guard Corps of Hamedan due to his courage and competence.

The book “Secret of the Red Gemstone” is a narrative biography of this Martyr commander, and contains the memories of him from the words of his family and companions. All characters in this story are made by the writer’s mind. The events of this story are a part of the ups and downs of the Holy Defense from the beginning of the war until the liberation of Khorramshahr. The book, which has been narrated in 64 chapters, in addition to introducing the prominent character of Martyr Mahmud Shahbazi, from the beginning brings together the reader with great martyrs such as Martyr Haj Ahmad Motevaselian, Martyr Mohammad Ibrahim Hemmat, Martyr Hussein Ghajehei, Martyr Vozaraei and other martyrs introduced in this book.

Book Expert:

I wish you say what you do once for all! Are you the Quran teacher? Study engineering? Or are you Basiji? Mother talked to Mahmud in her mind. She asked, but did not hear any answer. Every time she saw him, her eyes illuminated and she smiled, but she was still worried about him in her heart. Thinking of seeing him leave tortured her. She became nervous and went standing in the yard with Quran and Espand. But this time, she wasn’t in the mood like previous times. She sat near the pool. She lingered and waited for Mahmud. But again she couldn’t tolerate. Her eyes fell on the plastic watering pot. She got up and wrapped her hands around the plastic watering pot hand, and watered the flower pots in the yard. But again she drowned in Mahmud’s imagination. Her restless minds reviewed childhood and adolescence of her son. Purl of water which was overflowing a pot and pouring on the stairs, brought her back to reality.

About the Author:

Hamid Hesam (1961-Hamadan) is MA in the Persian Literature of Tehran University. He spent his youth on the war front lines, and this made the Holy Defense his main approach in writing and creating his works. His works have two special features: firstly, he is familiar with the do’s of writing and has required taste. Figures of speech and description in his works are in a way that illustrates. On the other hand, he writes about the subject and setting that has understood and perceived. Hesam was introduced as the year figure of the Islamic Revolution Art for writing the book “When the Moonlight Was Lost”, in the Islamic Revolution Art Week. Hamid Hesam is currently living with his family in Hamedan.He has been the author of more than 14 books in the field of the Holy Defense like verbal memories, short stories, and stories.

Some of them include: When the Moonlight Was Lost, The secret of the Red Gemstone, Reason (Narrative of the Epic of Martyr Chitsazan), Water Never Dies, When the Moonlight Was Lost, and Scent of Stocks.

Shah bi Shin (A King without Crown)

 

Author: MohammadKazem Mazinani

Subject: Fiction (Historical Novel)

Year of Publishing: 2017/10th Edition

No. of Pages: 420/Paperback

Size: 14 × 21

ISBN: 978 99645069259

*Sample English text is available.

About the Book

 The Shah of Iran is lying in the operation room under the blade of surgeons. They are taking autopsy samples from his liver and pancreas. Cancer has advanced in the abdomen, and is spreading further. The author is sitting near the bedside of the Shah’s (and in an invisible way), describes his condition …. .From when he is only a child, he has witnessed the departure of the Qajar kings from the throne, their palaces and departure of Reza Shah, his father’s precedent, and departure of the rest of the (royal) family. His father sent him to Switzerland to continue his education and studies so that as the heir to the throne and his successor (the future king of Iran) he would have a European-style education. After graduation, he marries Fawziah, the sister of the king of Egypt. However, (unfortunately) instead of bringing him a son to inherit the throne, Fawziah brings him a daughter named Shahnaz. When Reza Shah was exiled, (Mohammad-Reza) shah’s twin sister intervenes in the affairs of the country. Fed up with such intervention (and turmoil), Fawziah returns to Egypt. She never comes back to Iran. Shah’s elder sister, while introducing Sorayya to the shah recommends her as the next queen. Sorayya, is half Bakhtiari, half German (she is half-bred). Marriage ceremony is held. But Sorayya is infertile. So the king divorces her.

In this novel, respectively; all the phases of incidents that take place are narrated. Issues and problems of the country’s internal and external relations and affairs, including alien interference in the country, boosting unrest, massive protests, which etc. pave the way for a revolutionary. Shah’s and his family’s escape from Iran, the victory of the Revolution in Iran, the disease of the Shah and his death. The story begins with the Shah’s disease, and then, from the perspective of the past, from the childhood to the moment of Mohammad Reza’s death is narrated as uttered from the king’s mouth. Also, the kind king’s attitude and mentality regarding woman, society, world, and other issues, even the relationships with objects and animals are depicted in this novel. The story of “A king without a thrown” is a novel about the biography and the life and the fate of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, with a touch of irony and comedy. It is an indispensable example of a documentary narration of the history of a king. By reading this narration, the reader will enjoy a documentary about the life of one of the contemporary Iranian dictators, in addition to enjoying the reading of a novel, one gets acquainted with parts of Iran’s contemporary history.

About the Author:

Mohammad Mazinani (1963-Dameqhan), Iranian writer and poet, majored in Persian language and literature .He has collaborated with different publishers and cultural institute in Iran. Mazinani writes both for children (poem) and for adults (novel).He has penned various books so far and most of them welcomed by Iranian audiences. Some of his books are following as: The Lost sea (1992), Water means fish (1996), The girl who married the sun (2006),,The mysterious Island (2007), The mermaid’s wet songs (2011), Cockroaches are alone (2014)

Among his awards and recognitions in Iran and abroad are:

-IBBY honor Diploma, Islamic Republic of Iran’s Book of the Year Award, Best book award from Ghanipour Book Festival, Best book award from the Children’s Book Council of Iran

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