Placeholder text

Go to cart

Zugzwang

By Ronan Bennett

Zugzwang Contemporary literature

Zugzwang

By Ronan Bennett

0 - Default Title
Description
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...
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2008-04-01
Publication Date:
2008-04-07
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0747587299
ISBN13:
9780747587293
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
194 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out