The mosaic - Issa Naseri

This is a novel that drags you into its world from the very beginning, then flows with you through the folds of the narration and its branches. It begins with a story of a detective reading a novel in which he finally found the key to a mystery of a crime that had troubled him for a long time, so you might think it is a detective story, but Issa Nasiri quickly pulls the bait from your mouth, and you find yourself in front of embedded stories, memoirs, journalistic reports, dreams, delusions, and visions, taking you on a journey of suspense through nearly eighteen centuries of human existence on earth. The narrative paths branch out, making you think they have scattered in the desert of existence like lost streams, with nothing uniting them, until they gradually converge into the great river of the story. The writer arranges before you pieces of a mosaic collected from distant places and times, then begins to piece them together, so they intertwine and harmonize, forming the body of the "Mosaic" novel with rare skill in modern storytelling. Once the mosaic picture is complete, fiery questions awaken in your mind, questions that had been dormant within the folds of the tale. Where does freedom arise from? From memory, or from will, or from their combination? And which one determines and shapes the other, art or existence? Is it not what remains of this life a piece of mosaic that tells it and hands the rest over to oblivion? And what is oblivion if not your lost mosaic piece, O reader?