Endgame: A Novel
(eBook)

Grouping Information

Book Cover Information

Hoopla Extract Information

stdClass Object
(
    [year] => 2017
    [artist] => Ahmet Altan
    [fiction] => 1
    [coverImageUrl] => https://cover.hoopladigital.com/opr_9781609453787_270.jpeg
    [titleId] => 12590202
    [isbn] => 9781609453787
    [abridged] => 
    [language] => ENGLISH
    [profanity] => 
    [title] => Endgame
    [demo] => 
    [segments] => Array
        (
        )

    [pages] => 320
    [children] => 
    [artists] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [name] => Ahmet Altan
                    [artistFormal] => Altan, Ahmet
                    [relationship] => AUTHOR
                )

        )

    [genres] => Array
        (
            [0] => Fiction
            [1] => Literary
            [2] => Noir
            [3] => Small Town & Rural
        )

    [price] => 3.99
    [id] => 12590202
    [edited] => 
    [kind] => EBOOK
    [active] => 1
    [upc] => 
    [synopsis] => An unnamed author is consumed by a small-town conspiracy in this existential noir by the award-winning Turkish author of Like a Sword Wound.

In Endgame, 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.

The 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.
    [url] => https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12590202
    [pa] => 
    [subtitle] => A Novel
    [publisher] => Europa Editions
    [purchaseModel] => INSTANT
)