sleeping in a cherry field

The novel tells the story of "Saeed", an Iraqi immigrant who works as a postman in Oslo. He falls in love with a girl who teaches Norwegian to foreign immigrants. This teacher, "Tuna Jensen", helps him master the language and achieve his dream of writing stories. Saeed goes far in writing and gets a regular column in a famous local newspaper. But death takes his beloved "Tuna", which exposes him to a severe psychological shock. He spends his days writing in isolation, and the only one he meets is his neighbor "Jacob Jondal", an old man who dreams of sleeping in a cherry field. In his last days, he bought a cherry field and ordered that he be buried there, believing that he would turn into a cherry tree. He believed in an old legend that says that after a person dies, he turns into something that suits the environment in which he is buried. If he is buried in the mountains, he turns into a rock, if he is buried in the desert, he turns into sand, etc. Saeed's isolation intensifies after the death of his kind neighbor, and he is cut off from the outside world, but he receives an urgent message from Baghdad calling him to return there immediately. The sender of the message tells him that his father's remains have been found in a mass grave near the city of Babylon, so he decides to return to Iraq.