And Her Eyes Were Amber

And Her Amber Eyes Was a novel that examines the confrontation between “existence and non-existence” from a fresh perspective and a creative outlook. A novel with unique and singular narrators. The rosary in Hashem’s hands, Zohreh’s black chador, the mosaic tiles of the yard, the ring, and the fetus expelled from the mother’s womb—each one by itself depicts a startling world and narrates the fears, anxieties, aspirations, and failures of the characters within the story… . In one part of the book, we read: From here, I can see her and I can recognize her, the amber-eyed woman. It’s her, as always, a book in her hand, standing by the tree with her back to us. As we approach, while I’m spinning in the air, the woman turns as if she is spinning too, and the tree flips upside down. How tall this tree has grown. I spin. The upside-down tree leaves its roots hanging in the air. It seems like three thousand and twenty-three years ago, and I want to climb from the roots up to the trunk of the tree. I want to reach a deep wound. Hashem pauses; he stops spinning me, perhaps recalling that my string has become frail. The tree stays there as it is, and so does the amber-eyed woman. The woman turns her face, and the reflection of the color of my beads in her amber eyes unsettles me… .