The novel “A window overlooking the square” written by Hoodeh Vakili. (between the years of (2012 and 2013), Published by Cheshmeh publishing(www.cheshmeh.ir). In 2016
The description on the back cover of the novel: The first novel of Hoodeh Vakili. A writer who had experiences as a poet. The novel has a shocking and intense beginning. A woman commits suicide in front of the eyes of her friend who is the main narrator of the novel. Something that becomes the main focus of Hoodeh Vakili’s novel. Her narrator is a hesitant woman from the middle class. Her best friend kills himself in front of her house on the seventh square, the house that was supposed to keep her away from her troubled past. But as the novel is going, the question arises, why did the woman kill herself in the middle of the street, and this is where the murmurs of murder emerge. In this novel, the author advances the narrative through the eventful relationships of these two women and the people around them. Narrating the story at different times, puts the pieces of the puzzle together to reveal the secret of the young woman’s death The author’s view of concepts such as home, loneliness, and the other, as well as the mysterious death that will not leave you until the end of the novel, are among the distinctive features of this novel.
Hoodeh Vakili’s first novel among the hundred best-selling titles at the Tehran International Book Fair. In 2023. (www.mehrnews.com)
a review by Iranian student news agency on “A window overlooking the square” ( www.isna.ir) in 2017.
A review on this novel published on the kavirneshin site. (www.kavirneshin.ir) in 2017.
A review by Hoodeh Vakili With the title “on the concepts of immortality, restoration and existenceon” on the book” A fraction of the whole” written by Steve Toltz. (https://www.laklakbook.com). In 2014.