Sand Eyelids

The stories of this collection depict people who are suddenly pushed to the edge of life and every fabricated reality has collapsed in front of them. In the present, where the past and the future have emerged from within, they are thrown to strange places, and inside the labyrinth without beginning and end, they are faced with such incomprehensible situations and situations that they have no choice but to go back and forth eternally in these intertwined spaces. It is as if they are the children of a superhuman who looks at his own destruction like an alien and can only find himself in this possible and meaningless world by creating new concepts. In these stories, we are dealing with people who are moving on the sharp edges of crises that tear their bodies and minds at the same time. The people who have shouted every time in this nakedness that has hit them, have only faced the echo of their voices. The people in the stories of the sand eyelids have no choice but to look at the entanglement of their bodies in silence. Roya Dastgheib masterfully created the entire space-time for his narrative, in which the characters look at the tightness and the animal body inside them, how it comes out of their hearts and breaks the bonds of their body parts. In the end, perhaps one can see the invisible and listen to the inaudible among the words of these stories.

Previously, two other titles by Dasgheeb, a novel and a collection of stories, were published in Ofoq Publishers: Orion Archipelago and Tratum. She is familiar with the atmosphere of surreal literature and layered stories. She is a master of non-linear narratives and has won the award for The Most Different book of the year in 2017.

Roya Dastghib (1958) after finishing high school, decided not to go to university and instead to be a freelance researcher. He is interested in areas such as literature, philosophy, criticism and cinema, and in these years he has benefited from the presence of professors such as Jamal Mirsadeghi, Hossein Payandeh and Hamid Amjad.