© Fraktura, 2010
St Petersburg, 1914: Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. Of more immediate concern to him, though, is 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. In a city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the forces, political, historical and sexual, that are holding him in their grasp.
Bloomsbury 2007
Translated into: Polish, Dutch, Croatian
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