Description
Istanbul Istanbul
Burhan Sönmez
Istanbul Istanbul is the story of four prisoners in the underground cells of a center for torture. When they are not being subjected to torture, the four tell one another stories about Istanbul to pass the time. The underground narrative gradually turns into the narrative of the above ground. Initially centered around persons, the novel comes to focus on the city of Istanbul. There is as much suffering or hope in the Istanbul above ground as there is in the cells underground.
A novel that appears political but in reality is about love. That appears to focus on the stories of individuals but in reality is about the city of Istanbul. Whereas conventional novels about Istanbul divide time into past and future tenses, Burhan Sönmez’s novel divides it into “time below ground and time above ground.”
ISBN: 978-9939-76-709-3
Pages: 268
Cover: Hard
Format: 12.5×20
Published by “Antares”, 2021