Zugzwang, Paperback Book, By: Ronan Bennett
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Where magnificence and squalor co-exist, there will always be envy, rage, cruelty, paranoia and violence St Petersburg, 1914: imposing and shabby, monumental and squalid, and - under its surface of frosty glamour - seething with plots and secret allegiances. On a blustery April day O.V. Gulko, a respected newspaper editor, is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. Five days later Dr Otto Spemann, famous psychoanalyst, receives a visit from the police. There has been another murder in the city - and somehow he is implicated.
He is mystified - and deeply worried, as much for his young, spirited daughter as for himself. He is preoccupied, too, by two new patients: Anna Petrovna, the society beauty plagued with nightmares with whom he is steadily and inappropriately falling in love, and troubled genius Rozental, the brilliant but mentally fragile chess master, due to play the most important competition of his life - the spectacular St Petersburg chess tournament - but on the verge of a complete breakdown.
With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spemann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the many forces - political, historical, sexual - that are holding him in their grasp
Specifications
- Books Author: Ronan Bennett
- Number Of Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Books Category: Literature & Fiction
- Book Format: Paperback
- Books_ISBN: 0747587310
- Other Feature 1: Edition: Export ed
- Other Feature 2: Weight: 310 grams
- Other Feature 3: Size: 135 x 216 mm
- Publication Date: September 03, 2007