Endgame: A Novel Summary
Ahmet Altan

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Endgame: A Novel Overview

Endgame is a noir murder mystery by veteran Turkish author Ahmet Altan about an unreliable and unnamed writer who retires to a seaside town in Turkey. Rather than a restful retreat, the writer witnesses a murder that disrupts the town’s façade of serenity and spirals the narrator’s life into a cycle of violence. The novel deals with themes such as duplicity, solitude, and the unreliability of memory.