Has Someone Died Here?

Has Someone Died Here?

“Has Someone Died Here” is a labyrinthal narration of the lives of six couples whose fates are tied together. They gather and come to meet up in a hospital lobby on a cool summer night. Mahshid’d infant boy is suffering from concussion, Danial’s wife is badly injured in a car crash, Sina’s girlfriend has committed suicide, Maryam’s sister is losing her baby in child birth, Salume’s father is in the fatal stages of his cancer and Adel’s little boy has lost both his kidneys. The main six characters of the story meet with a middle aged man named Edris. They’re meeting takes place in a dream like space and an illusional place, a parallel hospital lobby. Although they all have seen Edris before in their everyday lives, some remember having met him before and some don’t. Edris, awakens the characters in the parallel illusional lobby, one by one. He tells them that if they’re love for their loved one in coma is real and true; they can help bring them back to life. All they need to do is to go through the exact pain and condition of their loved ones. Adel is the only exception; he is only to watch the mysterious scenes and to learn and find a way to help himself and others in future. The characters of the story treat Edris with awe and disbelief. Once the deal of love and death is on the table, some like Mahshid accept the deal without a second thought, most of them hesitate and others like Salume will not go through it at all. It’s a long night and each character has to look in through one’s self, to face their true feelings and decide. This decision is the beginning of an inner deep journey to find ways to help themselves and others. Edris has not chosen these six people randomly. They each have had a peculiar and unique life which is read in the novel in between the awakening chapters. The characters’ struggles and their final decisions, raise many questions and challenges about love, life and death in the reader’s mind. This novel with its numerous special characters, short chapters and diverse attractive scenes, will keep the reader’s read on till the end.