LOVERS OF FRANZ K. “You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to …

* STONE AND SHADOW “Of the many things hidden from the knowledge of men, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart.”Homer, The Odyssey“Death is a mystery …

LABYRINTH “It only takes two facing mirrors to construct a labyrinth.”J. L. Borges, Seven Nights “It is not man who discovers the word, it is the …

ISTANBUL ISTANBUL Istanbul Istanbul, (250 pages), is Burhan Sönmez’s third novel (2015).It is the story of four prisoners in the underground cells of a center for …

SINS AND INNOCENTS Sins and Innocents, (160 pages), is Sönmez’s second novel (2011).Two young people from foreign lands meet in a shop in Cambridge: Brani Tawo, …

NORTH North, (300 pages), is Burhan Sönmez’s first novel (2009).It is the story of a young man whose father leaves when the protagonist is two years …