An actor who plays the role of a ghost in a haunted tunnel separates from his own body to escape the law-not through a miracle, but by signing a strange contract.

At the same time, in the timelessness of the city, another story unfolds: a girl whose dreams seep into waking life, shadows that detach from their owners, and people wandering somewhere between death and the desire to live.

Tunnel is a dark, suspenseful novel infused with bitter humor; a story about people who want to leave the past behind, yet the past-like a living creature-returns through hidden paths.

A magical and satirical novel about memory, love, guilt, and a truth that, if revealed, may make the tunnel humanity's last refuge for rest.

Saeid Karafarin was born in Tabriz and is a graduate of art and architecture. To date, he has published the short story collection The Dead Man in Room 24 in 2003 through Morgh-e Amin Publishing in Iran, and the graphic novel The Chronicle of the Fly in 2011 through Gardoon Publishing in Germany. The Tunnel is his third work and is being published by Asemana Books in Toronto. Two other novels by the author, titled Māti and The Journeys of the Narrators, will also be published soon.