The lowbred's Island
by Shahram Shafiei
Description
This five-volume collection contains short funny comic stories that keep children and young adults from engaging in ugly behaviors and help them recognize these bad habits. It teaches them that conditions do not stay the same throughout life and that everything changes.
This book has not only been reprinted many times due to its sweet prose and is one of the best-selling books, but it is also one of the most requested books in public libraries in Iran.
The last survivors of the lowbred royal family live in a palace that has now been turned into a museum. The family consists of an eleven-year-old son and his younger sister, their parents, the father's uncle who is the king, and his wife who is the queen. This royal family is nothing like a normal royal family. The king is the janitor of the museum and is accustomed to taking everything from visitors as a souvenir, even ice cream. The daughter and son of the family also deliver chairs to the visitors and receive tips from them. The family members have strange names like “Goalkeeper” and “his majesty, get your hand off, you the 18th blemished pear” and their behavior and talk are even stranger than their names. The king, as the most lowbred member of the family, specializes in strange uneducated behaviors. For example, he wipes his wet hands with a neighbor's child and then hangs the child on a hanger to dry! The queen, who is both the queen of the kitchen and the palace and prepares food for visitors, has made obesity a moral value. Here is just the mother in the family who thinks it is not still too late to educate the king and others.
Each story of this collection has a different theme and is about the stories that this strange family experiences. The narrator of these stories is the 11-year-old son of the family.
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- Publisher Kanoon
- Orginal LanguagePersian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789643916145
- Publication Country or regionIran
- FormatPaperback
- Pages130
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitlePersian
- Dimensions21*14 cm
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