{"product_id":"9781609453770","title":"Endgame","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e’s 50 Notable Books of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite widespread political censorship and crackdowns by the Erdoğan regime, Ahmet Altan bravely crafts a novel about the ways in which corruption envelops contemporary Turkish life. \u003ci\u003eEndgame\u003c\/i\u003e is an atmospheric and enigmatic literary noir, in which an unnamed writer visits a small town and finds himself involved in a mystery with existentialist implications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA womanizing writer who has lived his entire life in the city retires to a sunbaked Turkish village. Instead of the quiet life he hoped for, he encounters a world of suspicion, paranoia, and violence. The town's mayor is both his only real ally and his greatest nemesis; his lover shares an ambiguous past with the mayor; the town seems 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe protagonist of this bestselling existential page-turner is an appealingly untrustworthy narrator whose story transports the reader into a world of lust, ambition, small-town politics, and death. A detective story turned on its head, \u003ci\u003eEndgame\u003c\/i\u003e is compellingly infused with a dreamlike logic reminiscent of Paul Auster and Graham Greene.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Europa Yearbook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47052860719344,"sku":"9781609453770","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781609453770_p0.jpg?v=1763839104","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781609453770","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}