Black Hole Diary

From Ali Teoman, a strange tale that takes place in a timeless Istanbul, impresses 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"...

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

Along with Child Deaths in Sleep and Horses of the Night, Black Hole Diary is the second novel of Ali Teoman's 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 direction."

A novel with great appeal: "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, impresses 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".