About this title: Zugzwang: derived from the German, Zug (move) + Zwang (compulsion, obligation). In chess it is used to describe a position in which a player is reduced to a state of utter helplessness. He is obliged to move, but every move only makes his position even worse. 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 Spethmann, famous psychoanalyst, receives a visit from ...
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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781596912533ISBN:1596912537
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Date Published: 2007-10-30
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Date Published: 2008-09-16
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Date Published: 2008-09-16
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Date Published: 10/30/2007
ISBN-13:9781596912533ISBN:1596912537
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Binding: Decorative Softcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781596912533ISBN:1596912537
Description: Fine. Advance Reading Copy (ARC) Advance Review Copy. Decorative soft cover. Full text. Pristine condition. New & unread. Precedes 1st hard cover edition. Collectible. Giftworthy. 'Zugzwang?A chess term used to describe a position in which a player is reduced to utter helplessless: he is obliged to move, but every move serves to make his position even worse. The breakout book from a celebrated literary writer: a thriller set in St. Petersburg in 1914 amid an international chess tournament and a ... read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781596912540ISBN:1596912545
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Date Published: 2007
Description: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition (first U.S. printing). An Advance Reading Copy of the fifth novel by the author of THE CATASTROPHIST and HAVOC, IN ITS THIRD YEAR, a story set in St. Petersburg amid an international chess tournament and a series of mysterious murders. Hardcover to be published in November. Fine in wraps as issued. read more
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