ENGLISH

The Luneburg Variation

By Paolo Maurensig

Book information

Publisher
Holt Paperbacks
Year
1998
ISBN
0805060286, 9780805060287
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12641120 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
144\143
Time added
2020-06-26 13:16:34

Description

At the opening of this amazing fiction, a cadaver is discovered, the body of a wealthy businessman from Vienna, apparently a suicide without plausible motivation. Next to the body is a chessboard made of rags with buttons for pieces whose positions on the board may hold the only clue. As the plot of this passionately colored, coolly controlled thriller unfolds, we meet two chess players--one a clever, persecuted Jew, the other a ruthless, persecuting German--who have faced each other many times before and played for stakes that are nothing less than life itself.

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