6 books
Burhan Sönmez writes fiction about memory, confinement, love, political pressure, storytelling, and the border between a city and imagined lives. Istanbul Istanbul gathers voices that use stories to resist isolation, allowing remembered streets and private histories to challenge an enclosed present. Labyrinth follows a damaged sense of self through fragments and the effort to reconnect experience.
Stone and Shadow places personal memory beside a longer passage of time, asking how work, loss, and public change settle into a life. Lovers of Franz K. turns literature, desire, secrecy, and power into intersecting questions. Across these novels, Sönmez moves between intimate perception and wider structures. Characters tell, revise, and withhold stories; places become emotional maps; and uncertainty becomes part of how people survive, remember, and recognize one another.
