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MEN DON'T CRY
a novel by Ercan Akbay
254 pages, Translated to the English by Meral B. Gürol
Genre:
mystery, suspense.
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Men Don’t Cry is an intriguing, fast-paced novel which narrates strange, interlocking adventures of intense love and lust. Two like-minded fourteen year-olds, enthralled with the Bohemian lifestyle, ignore their gang, and escape from boarding school. They are unaware that the price of making their innocent dreams of freedom come true is high, and that they are about to start a fire that will have a profound effect upon the whole of their lives.
The book takes us on a never-ending journey from the sordid, crime-ridden world of petty theft to art fraud, from surprising electronic discoveries to smuggled historical artifacts, from lust-fuelled loves to the deadly mysteries of insanity. Although last chapters of the final episode reveal some more mysteries of the earlier episodes; like the ominous motivation behind the behaviors of the second male character of the novel, and the reasons of our hero’s lover’s carelessness, the illness and all the rest of the questions at the audience’s mind are enlightened, but still, there lie in the shadows new questions that are bound to remain unanswered. The author, once more, succeeds in leaving a bitter aftertaste when confused lives cross at the novel’s striking end.
The Structure of the Book:
'Men Don’t Cry’ consists of four time-based episodes; 1974, 1982, 1987 and 1988, and a total of forty chapters. At the beginning of each episode, a brief summary of the past years are described, including the general atmosphere of the city together with the music and social trends. Each chapter is named to its subject contained, averagely six--seven pages long, and forming a book of 254 pages. The theme of this fourteen-year-of-a-period mystery is basically built upon passion and envy.
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