This book, in the first place, is not a historical novel, but it possesses numerous properties that leads the author’s new work towards historical novels. To further explore the issue, we can refer to the signs in the text, almost many of which are adapted from historical novel elements. If historical events of Yazd and the surrounding area are omitted from the novel, then its main structure will collapse, and it will no longer be possible to expect its fragmented stories to make a single narrative. Perhaps one of the main reasons of this is the central theme of the novel which is based on historical events of Yazd; i.e. the subject of Islamic Revolution and its roots in Yazd, which sometimes spread wider and even reach the late Qajar period. However, the main events take place during the rule of Pahlavi regime, especially Pahlavi II, that result in the formation of the chain of events in the city of Yazd. Seven chapters of this novel have one narrator who appears to narrate his own story. But in fact he tells the story of a city; a city that has experienced numerous events in the present century and has witnessed the emergence of different people in the administration of the city in various historical periods. And in the meantime, there have been fighters who fought to get rid of the dictatorship and suffered hardships.

Hadi Hakimian