Ray & Rana (novel)
Written by Esmail Yourdshahian)

The “Ray & Raana” novel is written by Esmail Yourdshahian. He is an Iranian contemporary poet, writer and researcher. According to critics, this novel is a new-real, differentiated piece with a surrealistic silhouette in praise of life and against war. “Ray & Rana” is filled with mystery and possesses a fluctuating structure narrating the true nature of love and being, declination of mankind in war and rationales of war. It goes back to 1979, around the time after the Iranian revolution that was followed by a war against Iraq and tells the story of a blooming love between two university students. Raana (the girl) is a painter and Ray (the boy) is a poet and writer and both are studying at the college of fine arts at Tehran University.
The story starts from the streets close the college right after their graduation. The girl's father who was in the military, fearing the consequences of the revolution, decides to immigrate to the U.S. Rana says farewell and Ray starts his military service in Iran. The war breaks out and the guy gets injured in an Iraqi chemical attack in Sardasht and their mutual friends and classmates tell her of his death. She mourned his death for a long time until someday, she dreams of him sitting in the passenger seat next to her while on her way back from the university. She panics and ends up in a car crash in which she loses her sight on one of her eyes. One afternoon, long after recovery while she was painting in her art gallery in the U.S, she sees Raay. She gets shocked, but she realizes that it was not Raay that she saw, it was actually another man called Mehrdad who had an uncanny resemblance to Raay. She ends up getting engaged to him after a while. Mehrdad was also a painter and goes back to Iran for war photography, but he never comes back after visiting the fronts. He develops a physiological illness and moves to the forests by the side of The Urmia Lake in Iran. She goes back to Iran in order to search for Mehrdad, but to her surprise she finds Ray at a hotel by the same lake. To answer her questions about his death and reappearance, he tells her that he was injured after the Iraqi chemical attack and gets hospitalized in Hamburg, Germany. They continue the search for Mehrdad together and meet dark men of shadows in forests and go through a lot difficulties.
Eventually, they fail to find Mehrdad and Ray heads back to Germany for further treatment as his health deteriorates. After his return, he finds Raana sick and she finally dies due to hearth issues. At dawn while she is being buried by a hill on the lakeside, Ray finds out that the grave next to hers belongs to him. The novel of Ray & Rana is a romantic work full of mystery and excitement. It should be read in order to appreciate the mysteries and beauties of our own real lives. This novel was published in March 2014 in Tehran by Attaei publications.

Esmail Yourdshahian
www.yourdshahian.com
es_yourdshah@yahoo.com

Ray & Rana (novel)
Written by Esmail Yourdshahian)

The “Ray & Raana” novel is written by Esmail Yourdshahian. He is an Iranian contemporary poet, writer and researcher. According to critics, this novel is a new-real, differentiated piece with a surrealistic silhouette in praise of life and against war. “Ray & Rana” is filled with mystery and possesses a fluctuating structure narrating the true nature of love and being, declination of mankind in war and rationales of war. It goes back to 1979, around the time after the Iranian revolution that was followed by a war against Iraq and tells the story of a blooming love between two university students. Raana (the girl) is a painter and Ray (the boy) is a poet and writer and both are studying at the college of fine arts at Tehran University.
The story starts from the streets close the college right after their graduation. The girl's father who was in the military, fearing the consequences of the revolution, decides to immigrate to the U.S. Rana says farewell and Ray starts his military service in Iran. The war breaks out and the guy gets injured in an Iraqi chemical attack in Sardasht and their mutual friends and classmates tell her of his death. She mourned his death for a long time until someday, she dreams of him sitting in the passenger seat next to her while on her way back from the university. She panics and ends up in a car crash in which she loses her sight on one of her eyes. One afternoon, long after recovery while she was painting in her art gallery in the U.S, she sees Raay. She gets shocked, but she realizes that it was not Raay that she saw, it was actually another man called Mehrdad who had an uncanny resemblance to Raay. She ends up getting engaged to him after a while. Mehrdad was also a painter and goes back to Iran for war photography, but he never comes back after visiting the fronts. He develops a physiological illness and moves to the forests by the side of The Urmia Lake in Iran. She goes back to Iran in order to search for Mehrdad, but to her surprise she finds Ray at a hotel by the same lake. To answer her questions about his death and reappearance, he tells her that he was injured after the Iraqi chemical attack and gets hospitalized in Hamburg, Germany. They continue the search for Mehrdad together and meet dark men of shadows in forests and go through a lot difficulties.
Eventually, they fail to find Mehrdad and Ray heads back to Germany for further treatment as his health deteriorates. After his return, he finds Raana sick and she finally dies due to hearth issues. At dawn while she is being buried by a hill on the lakeside, Ray finds out that the grave next to hers belongs to him. The novel of Ray & Rana is a romantic work full of mystery and excitement. It should be read in order to appreciate the mysteries and beauties of our own real lives. This novel was published in March 2014 in Tehran by Attaei publications.

Esmail Yourdshahian
www.yourdshah.com
es_yourdshah@yahoo.com

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