Esma'eel lost his father at a young age, he is always a school runaway, and his mother could barely make him continue up to the fifth grade. He lives in Ghanbarabad, a downtown neighborhood, and his usual hangout is Ali Khaldar’s café, where he meets other kids, watches TV and reads books - love stories and detective stories. After a long time strolling down the streets, Esma'eel finds a job in the bank thanks to an acquaintance of Ali Khaldar. Thereafter, his life gets better than before. Shortly after starting his career at the bank, he meets a high school girl called Sarah and falls in love with her. He writes her letters and they talk on the phone. On their first date, they meet in the park. But Sarah’s father arrives, and it ends with assault and battery and the police station, and Esma'eel is released based on the written pledge. After wandering aimlessly for a while, Esma'eel goes to a mosque. There, he meets Javad, the librarian. He both reads books and helps Javad to do his work. During that time, Esma'eel becomes familiar with most of the preachers in Tehran and always strives to attend their lectures. Javad talks about the Shah and his devotion to the Americans, the religious authority, Imam Khomeini, their opposition to the Shah and finally the deportation of Imam to Najaf. Javad gives banned books to Esma'eel to improve his knowledge. A play called Hor is scheduled to be performed in the mosque. Javad plays the role of Hor. The mosque is crowded during the play. Some SWAT vehicles arrive. An officer calls out the mosque’s servant with a loudspeaker. The officer punches and kicks the servant for being late. Esma'eel cannot stand it, grabs the speaker from the officer and hits him on the head a couple of times with it. Blood runs down the officer’s forehead . . . Esma'eel escapes. He first goes to Javad’s home to hide his books and leaflets, then goes to their own home and places his books and leaflets in the under stairs storage, burns Sara’s letters and takes refuge in the Imamzadeh via the roof. As he hears the sound of strangers approaching Imamzadeh, he enters a hatch that has a narrow and spiraling staircase and reaches the minaret. Suddenly, he smells gunpowder, and blood drops along with the pigeons’ feathers and furries scatter around and paint Esma'eel’s face red. Esma'eel grabs a thin walnut tree branch near him and jumps. The branch breaks and Esma'eel falls sideways into an empty grave filled with mud and sleet. Esma'eel is one of the few humanistic novels about the revolution. A characteristic of the Esma'eel novel is its intimate language, and the author has been able to push the events forward well using this intimate language. The author has beautifully documented an event that took place during the revolution. The text is very fluent with great character development. The book is a completely humane work, free from any slogans and exaggerations. Book Expert: “A moment later, it broke with a crackle, and he fell along with the branch. He fell sideways into an empty grave filled with mud and sleet. He heard the sound of his own growling and then, the cawing of a few crows. He loosened up. Sleepy, he was slowly sinking into the fog. The grave cavity was soft and comfortable; like a cradle, like a mother’s bosom. He had achieved Nirvana. Sometimes familiar and kind eyes watched him and someone asked, “Who are you?” His mouth tasted like snow. The pigeons fluttered. Their blood splattered on his face, warm, with soft fluffies. There was a sound coming from far away, the sound of a train horn. The ground was shaking, the grave was shaking, the grave was getting deeper, the grave was dragging him inside. There was the sound of a train. A train approached him from afar.”

AmirHussein Fardi (1949-2013/Ardebil) Amir Hossein Fardy was a proactive writer in the field of fiction literature. He has been appointed to many executive positions in his career including: a member of Islamic Thought and Art Circle, editor-in-chief and responsible director of Kayhan Bacheha (Kayhan for children) for 31 years, founder and responsible director of Kayhan Elmi (scientific Kayhan), director of The Literary Creations Center in the Art Circle, a member of The Fiction Council of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, a member of the Fiction Council of the Foundation for the Preservation of Works and Publication of the Holy Defense Values, the responsible authority of Shahid Habib Ghanipour Book of the Year Selection Festival, the responsible authority of the Fiction Council of the Basij Resistance Force, and director of Fiction & Novel Workshop of the Art Circle. His other experiences include: acting as a judge to select the Book of the Year for the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, Foundation for the Preservation of Works and Publication of the Holy Defense Values, Shahid Habib Ghanipour Book of the Year, Basij Fiction Literature Festival, Rahian Noor Festival, Iranian Pen Society, and Quran Stories Festival. In 2008, Fardy received a “top-ranking art badge” from the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of the time. Some of his works include: Year of the Wolf, Sooreh Mehr,2013 The Nest in The Fog, Sooreh Mehr,2009 Siahchaman, Sooreh Mehr,2012 Tales of Spring Flower, Sooreh Mehr,2009