Bøger af Amir Marashi

The Story About Cats and Mice - literally the title is Mouse and Cat - has been written around 1370 by the persian writer 'Obayd-e Zakani. The story highlights the moral dilemma of the 'supressed' who faces the problem of his own powerlessness. The mice who fight against the domination of the cats, don't simply fail because of their weakness, smallness or fear, they lose because of the cats' 'superiority' in brutality. For the mice no alternative exists. So a passage from the story says: ... a fellow, on his way to the warfront, was wielding his sword clamoring aloud while trembling and ducking his head simultaneously. When he was asked why he was yelling, he quickly responded I want to scare off my enemy. When questioned as to the reason behind his trembling, he said I am quite frightened myself... '

The power of prophecy has been inherited by the first female from generation to generation since the days of the first oracle of Delphi, Gaia. The diary that follows the line has recorded, sometimes in strange languages, the names and the dates of their births. The diary arrives in Scotland in 1803. In 1960, when Hilda Garnock dies, her daughter Susan becomes the latest oracle. She marries Stuart in 1961 and a year later she gives birth to twin girls: Helen and Diana. But the happiness of the family is shattered when Susan's frequent prophecies repeat the same message: the twins must never see eye to eye; they must be separated or they both die.

Arash was an Iranian national hero who sacrificed his life for the glory of his country. When the bloody and long-lasting war between Iran and Turan came to an end, the rulers of both countries decided to make peace and to fix the boundary between their kingdoms. The defeated Iran was ordered to shoot an arrow towards Turan. Where the arrow landed was to mark the border between the two countries. An Iranian super hero, Arash, agreed to shoot the arrow from the peak of the Damavand (Iran's highest mountain). One morning of Tir (July), Arash climbed Mount Damavand and faced the direction of Turan lands, and with all his strength pulled his bow. The arrow flew the whole morning and fell at noon - 2250 kilometers on the bank of the Oxus River in what is now Central Asia. The river remained the boundary between Iran and Turan for centuries. When Arash let his bow go, he fell to the ground on Mount Damavand and passed away. ...

Talking to the mirror is poetry collection in English and Persian by Mr. Amir Marashi