· At the opening of this amazing fiction from Paolo Maurensig, The Luneburg Variation, a cadaver is discovered, the body of a wealthy businessman from Vienna, apparently a suicide without plausible motivation. Next to the body is a chessboard made of rags with buttons for pieces whose positions on the board may hold the only www.doorway.ru: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Maurensig's ``Luneburg Variation'' is a story of evil and revenge centering on the game of chess _ chess invested with an elevated and yet also sinister, cabalistic quality. It is an absorbing. · by Paolo Maurensig ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, A polished and subtle first novel, published in Italy in , that details with Nabokovian cunning the working-out of a ``sickening design'' during WW II and for long years afterward.
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. Buy The Luneburg Variation by Maurensig, Paolo, Rothschild, Jon (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. "Paolo Maurensig was born in Gorizo, and lives in Udine, Italy. A bestselling author, he debuted in with The Lüneburg Variation, translated into over twenty languages. His novels include Canone Inverso, The Guardian of Dreams, and The Archangel of Chess.
by Paolo Maurensig ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, A polished and subtle first novel, published in Italy in , that details with Nabokovian cunning the working-out of a ``sickening design'' during WW II and for long years afterward. - Publishers WeeklyAt the opening of this amazing fiction from Paolo Maurensig, The Luneburg Variation, a cadaver is discovered, the body of a wealthy businessman from Vienna, apparently a suicide without plausible motivation. Next to the body is a chessboard made of rags with buttons for pieces whose positions on the board may hold the only clue. It is amazing how much is contained in so short a work. At a mere pages, "The Luneburg Variation" has a lot of ground to cover. Paolo Maurensig tells the story quickly, through two different narrators, combining the elements of chess with all the atmosphere of a classic mystery thriller. The novel opens with the death of a wealthy businessman.
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