"Circles" is a long social story. The story is about a small part of a society whose frustration and disappointment have become a permanent part of their story. The story of young people who, in the moments when they feel they are coming to their desires, have found it more distant and unattainable than ever. Hamid Nourshamsi's first long story tells about the life story of four persons who have intertwined with small reasons. At a time when these little excuses are becoming the most important and beautiful reason for them in life, destiny and time and perhaps the essence of these persons who were trained and bred in a society that nurtures them, fade them and take them away. The "Circles" has tried to tell a story from the perspective of five persons with four narratives in its text. There-fore, the narrators of these stories are a daughter, two sons, and two fathers. The life of each of them runs like a circle in its orbit. These circles have nothing like a common point with each other except when their orbits cross each other somewhere. The crossing will not necessarily mean that their paths will change from there. In its narra-tive style, the "Circles" has attempted to utilize as a simple and poetic narrative style as possible. The sense of nar-rators at any moment during the happening of special events for them has been described and conveyed without exaggeration or overstatement and merely by helping the simplicity of words and phrases. The work has a linear narrative with four narrators each narrating the story someway. The first chapter of the story opens a knot that the other chapters are trying to explain how this knot created and what its outcome was. The Circles book is a social novel and is compiled according to the author's specific view, as a cultural journalist in Iran with 12 years’ experi-ence in Iranian newspapers and news agencies. Shortly after its publication, this book has received a great deal of attention from literary writers and critics in Iran, and a number of them have also attended its signing ceremony.

Hamid Nourshamsi (1982, Tehran), Ph.D. student of Communication Sciences Hamid Nourshamsi has been working as a journalist and literary critic in Iran for the past twelve years. He is about to release another novel entitled Returnee. He is also the author of the book Kimiaye Pars including a brief introduction and looks to selected works of the Iranian National Literary Awards. Nourshamsi has been ranked first to third in some journalistic awards in the field of books in Iran and is recognized as a well-known literary journalist in Iran.Returnee is about to publish in Shahrestan-e Adab Institute and Kimiaye Pars was published in Taka Publishing Institute.