"Life is Like This" is a novel written in a surrealist style in which there are several narratives, with numerous characters in the novel, none of whom play a central role in the story. The novel's narrative begins with a dialogue about the fear of corpses and expands from there into the story. Akbariani, on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, wrote this novel in a surrealist atmosphere and invited his audience to understand an atmosphere in which many strange events are coming to life. Myths and historical figures emerge from the underground and align themselves with the living. The strange hero of the text breaks through the normal flow of life and tries to discover things. Akbariani's expressionist novel is mixed with streaks of fantasy and allows its audience to discover new meanings...