Narayan

'''Introduction to the Work: Narayan, who was returning to his home planet to spend his fertile period, unexpectedly shares an accident aboard a spaceship with a stranger and ends up spending his fertile period with him. Raising his red-haired son Hon, who closely resembles the stranger, Narayan lives in seclusion on his home planet. Now, ten years later, he is suddenly reunited with Hon's father, Jonas, who has come looking for him. As a young man of the Mara race, for whom spending the fertile period is solely for the preservation of their species and living alone for a lifetime is the norm, Narayan cannot comprehend Jonas's insistence that they must spend the rest of their lives together...