Original title: خمره
Author: Hushang Moradi Kermani
Preface: Daniela Meneghini
Original language: Persian
Translator: Eleonora Barichello, Silvia Pessot
Publisher: Edizioni Cà Foscari
Year of publication: 2020
Number of pages: 165
ISBN: 978886969362

Either way, we are all out of luck with something. I myself have had no luck with peach trees in my life. God knows how much I wished I had a peach tree like that of Mohammad Sadeq, our neighbor, but I never got it. I am not hiding anything from you: I have planted ten peach trees in front of my house, and not one has borne fruit. Either they dried up, or the fruits fell that were still unripe. But you are unlucky with the amphorae. Some others have no luck with shoes, such as my wife.