Aras, the Iranian river that rises high in the mountains, tells the story of a nomadic people camped on its banks. Full of love, but not without jealousy, he observes how the girl Saray becomes a young woman and how a childhood love turns into an adult relationship with Aydin.
Among the people on the river is the old carpet weaver who weaves stories. And Doeman, who is different from the others, with eyes that seem to be extinguished and yet see what others do not perceive. And Ashik, who sings about everything that belongs to the life of these people: the animals, the mountains and last but not least Aras, the river. Only now and then does a trader come by and exchange cheap sweets, combs, hand creams and other trinkets for the wonderful carpets. And once he brings a woman who has travelled from a faraway country. She too lives by a river there.
In a beautifully poetic style that readers will recognize from her debut novel The Sky Is Always Purple, Sholeh Rezazadeh tells the extraordinary story of Saray and the river Aras.
