The Cold Fireplace

This novel, through a love story narrative, explores an emotional relationship between two individuals from different social classes. The book’s back cover description reads: “When he sat next to me and closed the car door, he filled my heart with all the good feelings in the world. I was afraid that something unusual might happen and end this beautiful moment. A lot of happenings that I didn’t want to think about. A lot of happenings that some weren’t even strange, like arrival. Arrival could end this beautiful moment. He looked at me. Smiled and said, ‘Are you okay?’ (from the novel text) Roham is the son of the caretaker of Esfandyar Vahabzadeh’s estate, one of the great landowners. Roham’s father, for not-so-valid reasons, always prevented him from confronting the Vahabi family until one day during a horse-riding incident, Shooka, Esfandyar’s niece, sees him and becomes curious about him. Roham has seen Shooka since childhood and fantasized for himself, but from that day on, the story changes.”