Structure:
'Against Windmills’ consists of four time-based episodes; 1989, 1996-97, 2004 and 2009, and a total of fourty-three 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 musical and social trends. Each chapter is named to its subject contained, averagely ten pages long, forming a book of 408 pages. The theme of this twenty-year-of-a-period mystery is basically built upon fear of death and iimmortality.
AGAINST WINDMILLS
a novel by Ercan Akbay
408 pages Translated to the English by Çiðdem A. Kobu.
Genre:
mystery, suspense.
The story begins in the most glamorous jazz club of Istanbul in 1989. The young boss of the club finds himself entangled in a forbidden love affair with a fascinating jazz singer, Serra, which turns into a nightmare very soon. At the end, that twenty years lasting passionate adventure metamorphoses to an exciting ritual. In truth, begging desperately the pitiless monsters that decide to end the life on Earth is not any different from fighting against windmills.
‘Against Windmills’ is a breathtaking novel that will intrigue you to its shocking end with its sophisticated fiction.
Against Windmills
The author of ‘Tales of the Weird’, Ercan Akbay begins to his recent novel by saying, “Destroying is a creative action.” Based upon the manifest by Mihail Bakunin, the prominent theoretician of Anarchist philosophy, he blends his own life story with a mysterious journey that followed a passionate love affair.
Cumhuriyet
A novel to be sounding: Against Windmills
Ercan Akbay’s fourth and recent novel took its place on bookshelves.‘Against Windmills’ slaps the audience’s face with despair of unhappy people who crushed under the weight of developing technology’s corrupted blessings.
Milliyet
A love a life: Against Windmills
Reaching readers through Dogan Books, this book of sincere dialogues together with strong narrative expression and rhythm will surely mark its place among the global world of literature.
Hürriyet
Flood comes after love
Similar to his other works, Ercan Akbay’s recent novel “Against Windmills” catches attention with its flowing narrative full of motion and intriguing twists leading to unexpected resolutions. These are to be known as the most significant elements which make the author differentiate among his domestic and international coevals. Vatan
‘Against Windmills” salutes black-fiction fans with Bakunin.
Referans
TO READ THE FIRST CHAPTERS OF THIS BOOK
