About the Author

Joachim Sartorius has served as a diplomat to New York, Istanbul, Prague, and Nicosia. Currently, he holds a professorship at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he teaches cultural theory. Stephen Brown is a playwright, translator, and cultural critic. His translations from German include Sartorius's The Princes' Islands: Istanbul's Archipelago and Birgit Haustedt's Rilke's Venice.

Reviews

"[A] delightful book. . . . Sartorius travels genially and wisely, observing, talking, recording the table talk at dinner parties apparently verbatim, and making friends with leading figures in the island's life, particularly artists."
-- "Times Literary Supplement"