Kathryn Stockett's novel "The Help" chronicling the lives of three black maids suffering from racial discrimination is converted into Persian by Shabnam Saadat.

IBNA: Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist. She is known for her 2009 debut novel, "The Help", which is about African American maids working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1960s. 

It took her five years to complete "The Help", which was rejected by 60 literary agents before agent Susan Ramer agreed to represent Stockett. "The Help" has since been published in 35 countries and three languages. 

The Help is set in the early 1960s in Mississippi and told mainly from the perspective of three women: Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter. Aibileen is an African-American maid who cleans houses and cares for the young children of various white families.Minny is Aibileen's confrontational friend who frequently tells her employers what she thinks of them. Her actions have led to her being fired from 19 jobs. Miss Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is the daughter of a prominent white family whose cotton farm employs many African-Americans in the fields, as well as in the household. Skeeter realizes that her friends' maids are treated very differently from how white people are treated. She decides that she wants to reveal the truth to the world from the maids' perspectives by writing a book about it. 

Shabnam Saadat is translator of works such as Dan Brown's "Lost Symbol". Saadat's Persian rendition of "The Help" will be released in the coming month by Afraz Publications. 

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