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    Naneh Chineh and the Little Sparrow: Based on a true story
    Naneh Chineh and the Little Sparrow: Based on a true story
    Naneh Chineh and the Little Sparrow: Based on a true story
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    Naneh Chineh and the Little Sparrow: Based on a true story

    By Saeed Habibzadeh

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    Naneh Chineh is the pet name for Saeed's grandmother. She was the only one in the family to look out for him, and she gave him money. But one day, she didn't come back...

    The story is illustrated with beautiful drawings.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateSep 12, 2014
    ISBN9783958303867
    Naneh Chineh and the Little Sparrow: Based on a true story

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      Naneh Chineh and the Little Sparrow - Saeed Habibzadeh

      Saeed Habibzadeh

      NANEH CHINEH

      AND THE LITTLE SPARROW

      Based on a true story

      Naneh Chineh and the Little Sparrow

      Translated from the German by Gitta Wolf

      All rights reserved. No part of this book – text or images – may be utilized in any way, shape or form without prior written permission of the author. This includes any kind of electronic utilization.

      Author: Saeed Habibzadeh

      Cover illustration: Saeed Habibzadeh

      Illustrations, layout and design: Samuel Schwarzkopf

      Copyright: 2014 Saeed Habibzadeh, www.saeed.eu

      Contact: saeed@saeed.eu

      ISBN: 978-3-95830-386-7

      Verlag GD Publishing Ltd. & Co KG, Berlin

      E-Book Distribution: XinXii

      www.xinxii.com

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      Naneh Chineh and the Little Sparrow

      My grandmother on my mother's side was one of the very few relatives I didn't just like but really loved very much. I was still quite small when she was alive, so my memories of her are very few. We children were allowed to call her Naneh Chineh. Naneh is the term for mother in the language of rural Persia, and Chineh means wrinkles. She had wrinkly skin; her hands and her face were full of wrinkles. And so she was called the old mother with the wrinkly face, Naneh Chineh. I can't remember how the name came to be, or who first called her that.

      For reasons of health and organisation, she didn't stay with us very often, and when she was there, she would only stay a few days at a time. We were living in a house that my father had built himself from the most simple materials, years before I was born. We had only two rooms, one downstairs, and one upstairs. In the little yard behind the house, we had a toilet and a small fountain where we brushed

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