North, Burhan Sönmez’s first novel, recounts old adventures with a new voice, investing new adventures with an old soul.

The North is a forbidden place, and, at the same time, a land of hope.

While one character attempts to resolve the mysteries surrounding his father’s death, another endeavours, through the dreams of others, to perceive the world he can no longer see …

Yet another searches for the land of shadows where he will be able to lay his dead shadow to rest, while another seeks the way out of a cursed dream in which he –and the universe- is trapped …

Another strives to satisfy his heart’s cravings by extracting other people’s secrets through torture, while another resists, holding onto his secrets in order to give the world a fresh lease of life…

One sets out to decipher the mystery of life, the universe and existence, while another hopes to reinstate his lost innocence by violating others…

Eventually secrets become confused with secrets, deaths with deaths, lives with lives, stories with stories, unfolding into the tale of Rinda and Loriya, the tale of humanity…

North is a novel about this enchanted world we live in.