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Endgame

Ahmet Altan

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Published: 21 Apr 2016
ISBN: 9781782112617
RRP: £8.99
Extent: 384 pp
Dimensions: 130×197mm

Published: 27 Aug 2015
ISBN: 9781782112600
RRP: £7.19
Extent: 384 pp

Translated by Alexander Amadeus Dawe

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In a few words

A dark, seductive and existential page-turner from one of Turkey’s bestselling and most significant writers

In a few words

An existential page-turner from one of Turkey’s greatest novelists

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

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

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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?

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‘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.

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

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

Ahmet Altan

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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.

In 2016, Ahmet and his brother Mehmet were arrested as part of a wave of arrests of journalists and writers following the coup attempt in Turkey. In 2018, they were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for their alleged involvement in the coup. The verdict has been widely condemned by human rights groups and journalists worldwide.

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).

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Ahmet Altan

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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.

In 2016, Ahmet and his brother Mehmet were arrested as part of a wave of arrests of journalists and writers following the coup attempt in Turkey. In 2018, they were sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for their alleged involvement in the coup. The verdict has been widely condemned by human rights groups and journalists worldwide.

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).

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