The Luneburg Variation by Maurensig, Paolo - 1997

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Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997-01-01. hardcover. Good. 92x12x144.

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Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997. Hardcover. Good/Good . 5x0x9. An x-library copy. In this first novel, Paolo Maurensig coolly executes the ultimate drama of manipulation--life as a game of chess. On this armature, he hangs a tale of vengeance set against a backdrop of historic villainy, Nazi against Jew. The two chess players are as black and white as can be--a persecuted Jew and a ruthless, persecuting German who first "duel" over a chessboard in an international tournament, and then in a concentration camp.

139 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black boards with silver lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First edition. At the opening of this book a cadaver is discovered, the body of an impeccable businessman from Munich, in an elaborate garden where topiary shrubs delineate a hidden chessboard behind the hedges. The death seems to be a suicide, with no plausible motivation, but then, as the plot of this thriller unfolds, we begin to see that its apparently random moves are variations on an opening gambit, and it can end only in a checkmate that annihilates the possibility of a rematch. Gary Kasparov has defined chess as "the most violent sport in existence", and that is true in this extraordinary novel, too. For the mortal duel around which it is constructed is between two chess players who are opposed human types - a clever, persecuted Jew and a ruthless, persecuting German - and when they face each other over a chessboard, at first in big international… Read More

FARRAR STRAUSS GIROUX. Hardcover. GOOD. 0 9780374194352 1993, 1997 VERY GOOD HARDCOVER IN DUST JACKET [SPINE FADED, O/W LITTLE WEAR]