{"product_id":"endgame-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of Washington Post’s 50 Notable Books of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ahmet Altan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48170147807483,"sku":"9781609453770","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_5b410bc4-22d7-4bbb-b0a3-512d82b4b8eb.jpg?v=1770635784","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/endgame-9781609453770","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}