The Highly Unreliable Account of the History of a Madhouse

Queries the concept of six degrees of separation as it relates dozens of tales, some entertaining, others unpredictable or tragic. She weaves her way through an amusing chain of interlinked lives and complex personalities connected by insanity (manifest or latent).Old sins do indeed cast long shadows.

The Highly Unreliable Account of the Brief History of a Madhouse is an ever-expanding novel that moves at a dizzying pace. A literary panorama of Turkey that defies boundaries spatial or temporal: one end in the 19th century, and the other in the 21st. A book of ‘human landscapes’ that startles anew with a completely unexpected turn of events, immediately after deceiving the reader into thinking the end of a plot line might be in sight.

The novel starts in a small-town mental asylum with its back to the Black Sea, and weaves its way through a highly entertaining chain of interlinked lives, each link a complex and bewildering personality. The Highly Unreliable Account… follows the trails of political and social milestones left on individual lives across a span of nearly a century.

Contributor: Feyza Howell (Translated by)

Translator: Feyza Howell

Pages: 330

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