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Endgame / Ahmet Altan ; translated by Alexander Dawe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Turkish Language: English Original language: Turkish Publisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2015Description: 371 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781782112594
  • 1-78211-259-6
Uniform titles:
  • Son oyun. Engelska
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 894.35 23
Summary: '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.
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"First published as Son Oyon in 2014 by Everest Yayinlari."--Title page verso.

'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.

Translated from the Turkish.