{"product_id":"endgame-paperback","title":"Endgame - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAhmet Altan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlexander Dawe\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unnamed author is consumed by a small-town conspiracy in this existential noir by the award-winning Turkish author of \u003ci\u003eLike a Sword Wound\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of Washington Post's 50 Notable Books of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eEndgame\u003c\/em\u003e, award-winning author and Turkish political dissident Ahmet Altan has crafted an enigmatic literary noir exploring the ways corruption has overtaken contemporary Turkish life. With a dreamlike logic reminiscent of Paul Auster and Graham Greene, it tells the story of an unnamed man who arrives in a small town only to find himself involved in a mystery with existential implications (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003eThe protagonist, a womanizing writer who lived his entire life in the city, retires to a sunbaked Turkish village to enjoy the quiet. Instead, he encounters a world of suspicion, paranoia, and violence. The town's mayor is both his only ally and his greatest nemesis; his lover shares an ambiguous past with the mayor; the locals seem hell-bent on turning him into a murderer; and, he is initiated into the town's biggest secret only to discover this knowledge will become a weapon used against him. All the while, Altan's appealingly untrustworthy narrator transports the reader into a world of lust, ambition, small-town politics, and death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eEndgame\u003c\/em\u003e is a mystery adventure of such intimately written humanity that it transcends genre, time, and place. If Steinbeck had written \u003ci\u003eThe Godfather\u003c\/i\u003e it might have read like this.\"--DBC Pierre, Man Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eVernon God Little\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAhmet Altan\u003c\/b\u003e, one of today's most important Turkish writers, was arrested in September 2016 for his work as a journalist. An advocate for Kurdish and Armenian minorities and a central figure in the Turkish cultural world (Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk has written about his arrest and signed a open letter calling for his release), he is the author of five successful novels. The first, published when he was twenty-seven years old, won the Grand Prix from the Akademi Publishing House. In 2009 he received the prestigious Freedom and Future of the Media Prize from the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig and in 2011 he received the International Hrant Dink Award. The international bestseller \u003ci\u003eEndgame\u003c\/i\u003e is his English-language debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 18, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701042745407,"sku":"9781609453770","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/435c936d2b2a89f311411deae12319d2.webp?v=1765019120","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/endgame-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}