{"product_id":"endgame-ahmet-altan-9781609453770","title":"Endgame","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ahmet Altan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1609453778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781609453770\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Europa Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.30w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/05\/2017 pg. 5\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2017 pg. 81","brand":"Ahmet Altan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987938541823,"sku":"9781609453770","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aa5bf935-562c-4f7e-bac0-d6eb9c942dca.jpg?v=1683291703","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/endgame-ahmet-altan-9781609453770","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}