Awards
- Long-listed for The FT/Oppenheimer Emerging Voices Award 2016 (UK)
Overview
'The time has come to tell you what happened . . . 'A man retires to a sun-baked Turkish town for a quiet life. What he finds is a world of suspicion, paranoia and violence. In a community of shady local officials, corrupt businessmen and a crooked police force, our narrator's life spins into chaos and criminality. The town makes 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.
Full Product Details
Author: Ahmet Altan ,
Alexander Amadeus Dawe
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 19.70cm
Weight: 0.261kg
ISBN: 9781782112617
ISBN 10: 1782112618
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 21 April 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Language: English
Reviews
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 *
If Steinbeck had written The Godfather, it might have read like this -- DBC PIERRE 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 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 *
Author Information
Ahmet Altan is one of Turkey's most significant authors and journalists. His first novel, Four Seasons of Autumn, published when he was 27, won the Grand Award of the Akademi Publishing House. His second, Trace on the Water, was banned for obscenity. Dangerous Tales, 1996, became a bestseller and sold more than 200,000 copies. His novels have been translated into many languages.Alexander Dawe was born in New York and now lives and works in Istanbul. He received a PEN translation fund to translate the collected short stories of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar. He worked with Maureen Freely on a new translation of Tanpinar's novel The Time Regulation Institute (published by Penguin in the US).
