Princes’ Islands

“Everything begins with loving a human being.” Sait Faik Abasıyanık wrote this sentence in his story ‘A Dot on the Map’. And that dot on the map is Burgazada, lying in the middle of the Marmara just off Istanbul… Sait Faik spent many long years of his life on this small island, among fishermen, seagulls and the sea. So what does an island tell a writer, that he should want to tell the whole world?