Endgame - Softcover

A deeply compelling and immersive narrative about love, desire, loneliness and landscape. Ahmet Altan is one of the foremost voices in Turkish literature and has much to say to the world -- ELIF SHAFAK Endgame is a rare beast: a mystery adventure in the age of internet, of such intimately written humanity that it transcends genre, time and place -- DBC PIERRE An impassioned, captivating dance, a waltz between death and desire that does not release you for even a single moment -- PHILIPPE SANDS Endgame is a complex and immensely readable book - insightful, disturbing, irritating and riveting -- ANDREA WULF Extraordinary, delicious, wise, I admire Ahmet Altan's novels * * LINN ULLMAN * * His novels and nonfiction have sold millions of copies * * THE NATIONAL * * Great author, great literature: Ahmet Altan reopens the wounds of love and history * * LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE * *

'I don't remember pulling the trigger; I only heard the gunshot. And then I saw a mouth opening, as if to speak, a face contorted, one hand in the air. . . And then a body falling . . .' A man retires to a sun-baked Turkish town for a quiet life. But he finds a world of suspicion, paranoia and violence. The town has made a murderer of him. The question is, who did he kill? Led by a deeply untrustworthy narrator, Ahmet Altan's international bestseller pulls us into a world of desire, ambition and death. A detective story turned on its head, Endgame is sensual, compelling and laced with a dreamlike logic reminiscent of Paul Auster. Endgame heralds Ahmet Altan as one of the most exciting literary voices to have emerged in years.