nasrin vahidi

The work of an author or artist is not to spoon feed fancies to the simple minded but rather to ask the difficult questions and to reveal the truth. The truth here is that we assign too much worth and value to one person at the expense of everyone else and when that one person breaks under the pressure, everyone else, after much suffering, eventually is good and free at the expense of the broken one. This story tells us not to take too much responsibility, it’s not good neither for us not for those around us to be the one who holds everything together. Instead train everyone to be independent and self sufficient. One of the best books ever written.