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 set off a fire that will have a profound effect on their whole lives.
Life was nothing other than a motorway with unmarked exits; the coincidences that increase our life force could easily become fatal adventures.
In this semi-autobiographic book, Ercan Akbay, writer of Tales of the Weird, takes us on an neverending journey from the sordid, crime-ridden world of petty theft to art fraud, from surprising electronic dicoveries to smuggling historical artefacts, from lust-fueled loves to the deadly mysteries of insanity; once more, he succeeds in leaving a salty aftertaste when confused lives cross at the novel’s striking end.