Jesus's Donkey

A collection of five short stories and two longer ones by Ashraf Forough, written between the solar Hijri years 1390 and 1395. The stories are about ordinary people of the kind met every day in streets and alleys, characters without heroic stature. The book has 300 pages in octavo (ruqi) format. The text is in Persian (Dari). For readers of contemporary Afghan short fiction.

Author: Ashraf Forough

Original title: خر عیسی

Bought from a Kabul bookshop and hand-delivered — the recipient inspects it at the door before accepting. The edition and cover may differ from the photo.