What happens when a documentary filmmaker looks through his lens and sees not the present, but the soul of an ancient sage?

In Glass and Diamond, Sadık Yalsızuçanlar blends the modern and the mystical to explore the life of the great Sufi sage Abu al-Hasan al-Kharaqani. A cameraman arrives in the city of Kars to film a documentary at the Harakani dervish lodge, but soon finds himself narrating from a place beyond time—from the depths of his own heart.

Opening with the profound wisdom that "the feet of those who travel the earth blister, while the hearts of those who travel the sky blister," the novel operates on a surreal plane. As the narrator locks eyes with the current sheikh, he enters a spiritual climate where the boundaries between the physical world (glass) and the eternal soul (diamond) dissolve, offering a poetic meditation on the nature of the spiritual journey.