{"id":42,"date":"2025-05-24T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T13:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pooya-salehi.com\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2025-09-06T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:10:28","slug":"the-gravestone-with-identical-dates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pooya-salehi.com\/index.php\/books\/the-gravestone-with-identical-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gravestone with Identical Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pooya-salehi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-1-2-677x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pooya-salehi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-1-2-677x1024.png 677w, https:\/\/pooya-salehi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-1-2-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/pooya-salehi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-1-2-768x1162.png 768w, https:\/\/pooya-salehi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2-1-2.png 987w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a world where time bends, stories unravel, and poetry bleeds into philosophy, The Gravestone with Identical Dates invites readers into a hauntingly beautiful meditation on memory, identity, love and the fragile borders between life and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A reclusive writer falls into a trance. In this space beyond time, he must confront his most hidden memories, buried fears, and the echoes of those he once loved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not a book that tells you where to go. It dares you to lose your way to question, to remember, to grieve, and perhaps, to find a new truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For readers who love poetic prose, experimental structure, and philosophical depth, this book is not just read\u2014it is experienced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Quotes from the book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI have two free things on my desk: <strong>a pen<\/strong> and <strong>my cast iron diary<\/strong>. These two free things, as I consider myself a novice poet and an unknown writer, give me such audacity as if they could transform me into a creator of another world. A world where I can touch everything, live with my childhood innocence, recite elegies over the graves of all the fallen in two world wars and one cold war, tear apart the delicate thread between story and poetry, grapple with logic at various crossroads, give a flower to the <strong>dinosaur<\/strong> whose evolution cycle has turned it into what I am, and ultimately ponder the reason for life<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world where time bends, stories unravel, and poetry bleeds into philosophy, The Gravestone with Identical Dates invites readers into a hauntingly beautiful meditation on memory, identity, love and the fragile borders between life and death. A reclusive writer falls into a trance. 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