The Fish That Carries the World on Its Back

“A fish swimming in the seas of your mind creates waves that hit the shores of your heart.”

For Emir, who lived as a street child in Tabriz, all the sounds of the world were as far as he could hear. However, his hearing loss did not prevent his heart from feeling or his mind from dreaming. Completely unaware that the red fish he saw by chance would change his life, Emir unknowingly identified himself with the fish while trying to free it. It was as if his own freedom depended on the freedom of the red fish.

When the years-long war between Iran and Iraq was added to the difficulty of living without a mother or father, home or love, life on the street became even more dangerous. Emir, who was looking for the light of his life in pursuit of his dreams and hopes, was about to embark on a long and difficult journey in the shadow of a terrible war. A hopeful story from the fairytale pen of Özgür Balpınar, author of

the Düşperest series and Canım Arkadaşım books, showing the world not as it is but as it should be.