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.