Supplied book coverHOSSEIN AHMADI / Supernatural fiction
SHOMAN
Truths About the Life of the Jinn
Novel previewWhat if the unfamiliar has always been close?
A novel at the boundary between human life and the world of the jinn, where the familiar becomes unsettling and the unseen draws close.
THE STORY INTRODUCTION
When the unseen
enters the story.
SHOMAN approaches the unseen through fiction. Its supplied book concept centres on the boundary between human life and the world of the jinn: a presence felt before it is understood, and encounters that make the ordinary world seem less certain.
Where the critical dialogues proceed through questions and responses, this novel gives the unseen a narrative form. The reader enters through atmosphere, mystery and the possibility that human beings may not know their own world as well as they imagine.
Questions to read with
- How does a story change when the unseen is near rather than elsewhere?
- What happens to familiarity when an ordinary setting becomes uncertain?
- How do fear, curiosity and interpretation shape an encounter with the unknown?