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An Island Story 1

An Island Story quartet is about the efforts of people left behind from wars, massacres and exiles to establish a new life on an island vacated by Greeks sent to Greece. Hope is the protagonist of the novel.

With the exchange decision taken in Lausanne, Greeks were sent to Greece and it was decided that people who lost their homeland during the wars would be settled on this island in the Aegean. The fate of the island changes with the arrival of Poyraz Musa. People of various origins who took refuge on the island, with the support of Poyraz Musa, grow the sprouts of a new life by keeping themselves happy despite all the pain they experience.

' Yaşar Kemal is one of the greatest narrators of the contemporary world. Reading it is understanding life itself. He writes like a fearless hero.'
-John Berger-

Yaşar Kemal is the oldest traditional narrator since Homer. It is the voice of a people who have no other voice.'
-Elia Kazan-

'Fortunately, Yaşar Kemal is the one who discovered the narrative tradition that we have lost. After twenty-five to thirty centuries, by turning history and politics upside down, the Greek poet (Homer) remained silent and the turn of the voice passed to the Trojan poet ( Yaşar Kemal ).