kasī bekhānad yā nakhānad Persian 2025

The book “Kasi Bekhanad ya Nakhanad” (Whether Anyone Reads or Not), written by Mahbubeh Mirqadiri and published by Nashr-e Saless, is a poetic meditation on solitude, introspection, and the search for meaning within the quietude of everyday life. In this work, the narrator—living on a small, remote island—engages in a silent yet evocative dialogue with herself and the world around her, within the seclusion of her room and on the terrace she calls “the cape.”

The prose is refined and contemplative; each word is chosen with deliberate care and moves gently, like a calm wave, guiding the reader toward the muted yet ever-awake shores of human experience. Colors, scents, faint sounds, and dim nocturnal light are woven into the narrative, shaping a world in which presence and absence, writing and not writing, being read and not being read, acquire new layers of meaning.

Whether Anyone Reads or Not is not merely a story recounting events; it is an inward journey—a meditation on existence at the threshold between language and silence, between staying and departing. The implied reader of this work is one who approaches the text with patience, seeking not plot but atmosphere—an affective state, a sense of being, a longing to be understood, even when no audible voice is heard.