Endgame - Softcover

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 * *

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?