20:39 Eight thirty-nine minutes

Author's name: Javanmard Kolk

The novel begins at 8:39 a.m. A young man and a young woman sit at a table in a bar, and everything in their lives changes radically. Time in the bar stops to the tune of a song that repeats itself endlessly. However, outside the bar's walls, time moves quickly, bringing with it old age, forgetfulness, and an unknown fate awaiting the young man and woman. With an artistic narrative, the short/long novel delves into the corridors of time, trying to capture time with invisible snare, exploring its essence by diving into the folds of memory and the details of the present, observing the evolution of the relationship between people and things, within the dialectic of illusion and truth and the nature of the constant and the variable. A novel in which fantasy and reality blend, and the boundaries between certainty and supposition collapse. Images follow one another in a single painting, transforming time into a mirror for dreams; where no beginning is visible, and no end draws the curtains of the unseen.