Black Hole Diary - Constantinople Trilogy

From Ali Teoman, it takes place in a timeless Istanbul, with fantastic characters and a grotesque atmosphere where the secrets of the underworld are told. A strange tale that surprises, makes you laugh with surreal events, and is full of irony and black humor; In the words of the author, "an evil and despicable novel"...

Ali Teoman's "Konstantiniyye Trilogy" was completed in YKY.

The Black Hole Diary, along with Deaths of Children in Sleep and Horses of the Night, Ali Teoman It is the second novel of the series called "Konstantiniyye Trilogy". The author made the following statement about the "Constantinople Trilogy": "These novels cannot be considered as continuations of each other because they tell the stories of different characters, but because they are located in the same surreal, fantastic, grotesque atmosphere, a timeless Istanbul, a similar background on which the events take place." This Istanbul is where people shop with gold and silver coins, use computers, go to Turkish baths, work in steel-structured skyscrapers, ride horse-drawn carriages, and where various periods, structures, inventions, and events are intertwined. It is a strange Istanbul. Characters and stories in one novel may appear in the background in another. Although each of the novels that make up the trilogy focuses on the same subject, it is as if they approach the same object from a different angle."

A novel with great appeal: "The Black Hole Diary "

Ali Teoman takes us on a long journey in a world full of familiar but still disturbing delusions. In this adventure, together with Attorney İbrahim Nemrûd, we meet many characters, from lawyers to tellers, from dervishes to gardeners, from psychoanalysts to half-mad scientists, and overhear the stories of each of them, and we are inevitably dragged towards an end where perhaps the fate of the attorney turns into the fate of all humanity through this city.

From Ali Teoman, a strange tale that takes place in a timeless Istanbul, strikes with its grotesque atmosphere where the secrets of the underworld are told, surprises with fantastic characters, makes you laugh with surreal events, and is full of irony and black humor; In the words of the author, "an evil and despicable novel".



Number of Pages: 600

Printing Year : 2013


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Publications

First Print Year: 2013

Language: Turkish