Samad Behrangi (24th July 1939 - 31th August 1967) was an Iranian teacher, social critic, folklorist and short story wirter. He was best known for his story called THE LITTLE BLACK FISH. He portrayed the lives of the children of the urban poor and used allegorical themes and symbols to criticise the Shah's regime in his stories. He died at the age of twenty eight. Throughout his short life he had always tried to teach children about life and he had never given up teaching. ONE PEACH, A THOUSAND PEACHES is

Latif is a poor boy and lives with his father in Tehran. They leave their home to work and earn some money in the big city. But there are rich poeple too; they have nice houses, cars, villas, clothes and they get never hungry. Samed Behrangi shows us the big abyss between the poor and the rich through the eyes of Latif.