Original language:
Persian Translated from: Russian
Translated by: Zdanavičius, Alfonsas
ISBN: 4803020000
Published in: Vilnius
Published on: 1982
Publisher: Vaga
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Persian fairy-tale‘s collection called “The Almond Tree” – is a great way to have a look at Persian culture, analyze the folk wisdom of life and the attitude of people. The fairy-tales – the specific genre or interesting form of culture – reveal the world full of secrets and fantastic things.
In this collection there are plenty of joyful adventures, instructive stories, which usually impel to smile from admiration. Concealed moral teach the reader to be more honest, sincere and help the others. The mean hero of the fairy-tales will always be punished – he will lose his life or will be disgraced or dishonored, and a good hero (sometimes after great sufferings) will reach the goal, become happy and earn honor.
The most significant message of the fairy-tales is focused to the exaltation of values and life lessons. Persian fairy-tales’ characters are mostly humans with different opportunities or humanized animals and bugs. There is no difference, whether there is a big or a small creature – a beast or a bug – everyone has courage, his own experience and the same feelings. The book is illustrated with a number of truly impressive illustrations of the artist Irena Guobienė. It helps even more to get into the story it tells.
You can find a lot of religious motives and symbols in the fairy-tales, such as prophet Musa (biblical Moses), Turo mountain (biblical Mount Sinai), namaz (Muslim prayer performed five times a day), achund (Muslim priest) etc. It goes without saying, that in this collection of fairy-tales weird and unusual phrases are common, the specific concepts or names of particular phenomena expand the perception of Persian nation and culture. It is great that every unusual word is explained at the bottom of the page.
Every fairy-tale of this book is different and exotic indeed, they make people analyze their manners, actions and thinking, care more about the close ones. Some of these fairy-tales might seem frightening and make the heart beat faster, however they are catchy and develop one’s imagination. The book of Persian fairy-tales “The Almond Tree” is absolutely unique, suitable for the readers of different age. The readers will gain a nice opportunity to admire the treasury of Asian fairy-tales and to experience mighty impressions.