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This cookie is used to enable payment on the website without storing any patment information on a server. This cookie is set by Stripe payment gateway. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press. Following Hitler’s rise to power, he and his second wife fled Austria first to England, then to America, and finally, in 1940, they travelled together to Brazil, where the couple took an overdose and died. ‘His great achievement in short form’ The TimesĪ staunch pacifist after his time in the Ministry of War during the First World War, Stefan Zweig was, at his peak, one of the bestselling and most widely acclaimed authors in the world. Never mind that you may have never moved a pawn to King four the story will grip you.’ Economist ‘Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game. ‘The rediscovery of this extraordinary writer could well be on a par with last year’s refinding of the long-lost Stoner, by John Williams, and which similarly could pluck his name out of a dusty obscurity.’ Simon Winchester, Telegraph But in agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will Dr B ultimately pay?Ī moving portrait of one man’s madness, A Chess Story is a searing examination of the power of the mind and the evil it can do. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the chess games in his imagination. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig.Ĭhess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession.
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