Mango Shrub: And Other Narrations contains 23 stories of love, romance, beauty, eagerness, happiness, sadness, pain, condolence, defeats and victories, history, joy and all kinds of emotions
and feelings.
The story "Mango Shrub" tells of a child and his father living through a revolution, with its accompanying pain and defeat. In other stories, the child experiences prison , defeat, and
victory.
This journey of love, sadness and purity also touches on the lives of a doctor, lemon vendor, princess, shepherd, and a king. As different from each other as possible, the characters still
possess common goals in life.