Amu Nowruz and his violets
(2024, original release: 2016)
By:
Mohammadi, Hadi
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
E/FOLKTALES/ASIA/MOH
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Brooklyn, NY : Elsewhere Editions, 2024
©2016
©2016
EDITION
First Elsewhere edition
DESCRIPTION
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781953861924, 195386192X :, 195386192X, 9781953861924
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Translated from the Persian
In the land of Winter, queenly Naneh Sarma coats the mountains and valleys in ice and snow and when she is tired she rests in her spiky snow castle. But with no one to talk to, Naneh Sarma gets lonely. In this gentle story based on a household Iranian folktale, Naneh Sarma journeys to the far off land of Spring to seek Amu Nowruz, Spring's herald, who sows the meadows with the seeds and flowers that fill his enormous knapsack. At the border between Winter and Spring, Naneh Sarma waits patiently for Amu Nowruz but by the time he arrives, she has fallen fast asleep. Gently, in her outstretched hands, Amu Nowruz plants violets