The Sleuth's Handbook

Dashiell Hammett Award, 2009
William L. Crawford Award, 2010

Dreams and realities… Are you sure you can distinguish between the two?
How many times have you realized that you dreamed of something you remembered, but did not actually experience it?
Have you ever encountered what you see in your dreams in your daily life?
How many times have you woken up and solved something that seemed unsolvable the day before?

A city where it rains non-stop. A man working at a desk, devoid of life. A rusted, moldy and rotting fair in the middle of the city. A relentless tracking system that documents even dreams and monitors everyone. And in the middle of all this, a man who, in his complete confusion, wakes up constantly to dreams. The Sleuth's Handbook is a relentless adventure revolving around murders, elephants and dreams. It's like a persistent dream that pushes all the doors of perception and clings to you.

He was born in 1977 in New York, USA. The atmosphere he created in his book, which he stepped into the literary scene with his first novel, The Sleuth's Handbook, which was deemed worthy of the Dashiell Hammett Award and the William L. Crawford Award, was compared to the films of great directors such as Terry Gilliam and David Lynch. Stating that he was inspired by writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Italo Calvino and Angela Carter, Berry builds a unique city with its darkness and nightmares in his first detective fiction novel, The Sleuth's Handbook.

The Sleuth's Handbook is an impressive and entertaining first novel from a brilliant author whose name we will hear more often in the future.

"If Wes Anderson were to make a Kafka adaptation, he would come up with a fantasy like this." -The New Yorker

"Berry's ambitious debut novel resonates with echoes of Kafka and Paul Auster." -Publisher's Weekly



Number of Pages: 296

Year of Print: 2012


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Siren Publications

First Print Year: 2012

Language: Turkish