بالشت پرم شوهر: کتاب اول از سه گانه سفیران سفر الفارسية 1447

The novel “My Husband, My Feather Pillow” by Fatemeh Zarei is the first volume of the trilogy “Ambassadors of Journey” (Safirān-e Safar). This literary and semi-autobiographical novel presents the life story of Golzar, an uneducated woman with a vivid imagination and a remarkable talent for storytelling, narrated from the perspective of her granddaughter. The work combines a warm, intimate narrative style with elements of humor.

During her adolescence, the narrator viewed her grandmother Golzar as a fanciful and even eccentric woman, someone who spoke to a photograph of her deceased husband and told stories of an endless love between them. However, as time passes and the narrator experiences love in her own life, her perception of her grandmother changes. She comes to understand that these seemingly exaggerated stories were, in fact, a way of expressing love, longing, and an identity that had little opportunity to emerge within a traditional society.

Through her stories, Golzar crosses the boundaries between reality and imagination and reconstructs her own life narrative. In a world where women were often denied the opportunity to express their desires and romantic experiences, she uses imagination as a form of resistance and a means of redefining herself. Her stories are not merely fabrications, but another form of truth: a truth born from lived experience, love, and the desire to fully embrace life.

“Be My Feather Pillow, My Husband” is a tribute to women whose life stories have rarely been recorded in history, yet who have created new worlds through their stories, memories, and imagination. With a humanistic perspective and fearless humor, Fatemeh Zarei portrays the complexities of love, memory, womanhood, and intergenerational relationships. In this novel, Golzar is not a secondary character, but rather the guide through which the author’s voice and life narrative take shape.