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Zugzwang. Ronan Bennett614 руб
This title is set in St Petersburg, 1914: imposing and shabby, monumental and squalid, and - under its surface of frosty glamour - seething with plots and secret allegiances. Where magnificence and squalor co-exist, there will always be envy, rage, cruelty, paranoia and violence. Five days later, Dr. On a blustery April day, O.V. Gulko, a respected newspaper editor, is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. There has been another murder in the city - and somehow he is implicated. Otto Spethmann, famous psychoanalyst, receives a visit from the police. 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. He is mystified - and deeply worried, as much for his young, spirited daughter as for himself. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann 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. Petersburg chess tournament - but on the verge of a complete breakdown. 2007 |