Zugzwang
1st paperback ed
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St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the forces - political, historical, sexual - that are holding him in their grasp…
Book information
ISBN: | 9780747587293 |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
Imprint: | Bloomsbury |
Pub date: | 07 Apr 2008 |
Edition: | 1st paperback ed |
DEWEY: | 823.914 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Number of pages: | 278 |
Weight: | 198g |
Height: | 197mm |
Width: | 129mm |
Spine width: | 19mm |