Mohammad, a young Iranian soldier, is being trained to join the war against invading forces of Iraq. He finds a severely wounded donkey behind the front line and tries to save the injured animal. Being under enemy's attack, it would be a difficult and funny task to carry on. And it becomes more so when he decides to take the animal back with him after finishing his service! Saving the Donkey has been received very well since its first publication in 2017. Being aimed at young adult readers, who hasn't experi-enced the war time, this novel pictures the Iran-Iraq war with a different tone and point of view. It is both humor-ous and humane.

Fatemeh Dehghan Nayyeri started her writing career with short stories. Her first col-lection of stories, Eve out of Paradise, was published in 2008. Since then she has written many other stories: My Grandfather, Ata, Citizen of Heaven, Dream of Flight, etc.