The fourth Wish written by Akbar Sahraee, is a teenage novel about Shamshad who is a young boy in the war. The narration of the events is based on the flashback to the past. The novel begins with the nightly deceptive offensive against the Ba'athist enemy that ends to the siege of Shemshad forces. During the siege Shemshad founds one of his schoolmates and also captures one of the Iraqis officers. Such coincidence of the events little by little reveals the background of the characters and the reader find himself within the core of the war and life. Benefiting from the folkloric elements and legends help the writer to create a familiar atmosphere for the reader besides the comic mood of the narration. Watching the war and combatants from both sides is another advantage of The Fourth Wish.

Akbar Sahraee, 1960- Akbar Sahraee is an Iranian humorist, and author. He is variously a novelist and playwright. The Iran–Iraq War features heavily in his works. He has written many humorous stories for the theater and many of them became publicly famous. Sahrayee begins to write in 1986 when he was 26 years old. His teacher in writing is Shahriar Mandanipour. He has studied management at university and volunteered to join the front during the Iran–Iraq War. He has also won many national awards which include honorary diploma, Hedayat's literary award in 2003, the first literary Award of Esfahan in 2003. Sahraee won the 2012 Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Award for writing Hafez Seven novel and some other important Persian awards like “Year Book of Press Association of Sacred Defense”, “Golden Pen Award of Iran” and “The second literary award of Isfahan in 2004”