Fadime Uslu, receiver of the 2011 Yunus Nadi Story Award, writes for children for the first time. Fadime Uslu uses an emotional language to narrate a young girl’s love for writing and the way writing is shaped with life, through Şeyma’s relation with her hard to communicate father, her emphatic mother, naughty brother and friends. The candid chats she has with her sea lover uncle reveal the internal showdown of sensitive, fragile people who are awaiting to be understood.

Overview

Şeyma’s dream is to write stories. She wants to put her experiences with her family, young brother and friends into words. Şeyma’s greatest source of inspiration is her uncle who comes to Istanbul every few years. Whenever her uncle who became a seaman inspite of his family’s objections and travels all around the world comes to Istanbul, he brings along a little animal friend and adventures in distant countries. The stories her uncle tells her will affect Şeyma in her self-exploration and story writing adventure…