The Luneburg Variation

by PaoloMaurensig (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1998

  $5.08

  Kasparov defined chess as 'the most violent sport in existence'. Part psychological thriller, part allegory, THE LUNEBURG VARIATION tells the story of a duel to the death, of a chess game that remained unfinished over fifty years. When an impeccable German businessman is found shot dead in the garden of his home, without any explanation for his apparent 'suicide', a mystery unfolds which carries the reader to the dead man's roots in pre-war Vienna, to his rivalry with a brilliant young Jewish player, and to the terrible secret in their past.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.27

  The story of a duel to the death, of a chess game that remained unfinished for over 50 years. When a German businessman is shot, a mystery unfolds which takes the reader to the dead man's roots in Vienna, to his rivalry with a young Jewish player, and to the terrible secret in their past.