Tag Archives: Samad Behrangi

When the Afghan MP, Malalai Joya, quoted from this book during her talk in Victoria, I looked for it and found it the youth section of the library. On one level it is a simple & vivid story of a brave and adventuresome fish; but given the political repression in Iran and the author’s politics and the circumstances around his early death in a drowning ‘accident’s, it can also be read as a political allegory. The Little Black Fish shows that it is impossible to completely suppress expression and resistance; the brave and creative will Read more [...]