Seven Hills One Death

Istanbul’s children came back to streets with great eagerness for changing life. The state's walls are being eroded by revolution wind, and a young man named Tunch prepares to kill himself in a suburb of Istanbul. As the youth is falling to Earth from high trees, Tunch goes back to the suburb where he grew up and comes to the flat of his uncle who committed to suicide. He steps out to the balcony with thoughts honeycombing his mind, winds the rope around his neck, then looks into the depth of a coal black mouth that waits for him in the street.

One who reads this novel will hear screams of young bodies carrying the revolution’s heavy woods on their little shoulders; the reader will see people who couldn’t extirpate the death seeds that are sprinkled in minds in the most beautiful days of Istanbul; and will listen to the flutter of people who know they must die but can’t achieve in no way.

Tunch's going to learn how to love someone in this novel. He’ll fall in love with a young woman named Nar in the middle of the revolution. She'll notice death holes in Tunch’s eyes and invite him to the Suicide School. As Tunch attends the suicide lessons, the government will be on another kind of job. The state has to restrain the youth’s freedom desire for its own future. But which state? The state that has its origin in the Seljuq Empire now is broken into pieces in itself. The state that has revealed itself as a shape of double-head eagle since the nomad Turkish people revolted against the Seljuq Empire in the ‘1240s are now at a loss. It hasn’t any ruler but a world of pretenders.

In the end of the novel, will the youth get what they wish for? What will Tunch do in this freedom fight? Die or kill? Will he hide an enigmatic object in his grave? Varios questions pushing each other in his mind:

“As soon as realizing that I can take breath again, some questions occupy my mind. All those I’ve lived in a few days are fated? I continuously look for a clue. Should I have joined the riot of this youth to die? Was Nar sent for coming along with me on that cursed road of death? Why Istanbul, where I have always lived with a heavy heart for these years, now becoming so entertaining and cheerful to me? At the very time death starts to draw the lines of my weak body that much sharply.”