Overview
Ā«Un gran libro entre el thriller iniciĆ”tico y la reconstrucciĆ³n histĆ³rica [...]. DiabĆ³lico Alekhine, malĆ©volo Larrue. Ā”Una novela que no hay que perderse!Ā»
Gilles Pudlowski, Service LittƩraire
Ā«Cuento los imperios que he visto derrumbarse a lo largo de mi vida. El imperio zarista, el imperio austrohĆŗngaro, el imperio otomano y el imperio nazi. Queda el mĆo, mi imperio de sesenta y cuatro casillas.Ā»
A sus cuarenta y siete aƱos, el campeĆ³n del mundo de ajedrez Aleksandr AleksĆ”ndrovich Alekhine, ruso de nacimiento y nacionalizado francĆ©s, juega las partidas del mismo modo en que vive su vida: de victoria en victoria, de continente en continente.
Corre el mes de septiembre de 1939 cuando se embarca en Buenos Aires rumbo a Europa junto a su mujer y el jarrĆ³n de porcelana que no lo abandona desde que, siendo un adolescente, lo recibiera como trofeo de manos del zar NicolĆ”s II. El hombre al que el compositor Harold Schonberg describiĆ³ como Ā«mĆ”s inmoral que Richard Wagner y que Jack el DestripadorĀ» no tiene otra preocupaciĆ³n que la revancha que lleva doce aƱos negando a su eterno rival, el cubano Capablanca. Sin embargo, en ParĆs le espera una carta llamĆ”ndole a filas, mientras que el Reich le insta a unirse a su causa y crear una escuela de ajedrez para las futuras generaciones alemanas. En un momento en el que todo puede aĆŗn decidirse en el tablero, el genio del ajedrez toma una resoluciĆ³n que lo convertirĆ” en rehĆ©n de los nuevos dueƱos de Europa y colaborador de Hans Frank y Joseph Goebbels. Poco a poco, las piezas de su propia jugada maestra #su esposa Grace y Spielmann, Rubinstein, PrzepiĆ³rka: los grandes maestros judĆos perseguidos, antaƱo sus mejores rivales# irĆ”n cayendo una tras otra.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
The amazing life of Aleksandr Alekhine, known as āthe sadist of chessā, āmore immoral than Richard Wagner and Jack the Ripperā, enshrined by the tsar, persecuted by Stalin, and Goebbelsā minion.
āA great book between initiation thriller and historical reconstruction [...]. Diabolical Alekhine, evil Larrue. A novel you canāt miss!ā Gilles Pudlowski, Service LittĆ©raire
āI count the empires I have seen crumble in my lifetime. The tsarist empire, the Hapsburg empire, the Ottoman empire, and the Nazi empire. Mine remains, my seventy-four-squares empire.ā
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At forty-seven, chess world champion Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alekhine, Russian by birth and naturalized French, plays his game the same way he lives his life: victory after victory, from continent to continent.
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It was September, 1939, when he embarks from Buenos Aires to Europe, accompanied by his wife and the porcelain vase he never leaves since he got it as a trophy in his teenage years from the very hands of tsar Nicholas II. The man composer Harold Schonberg described as āmore immoral that Richard Wagner and Jack the Ripperā has no other worry than the rematch he has been denying his eternal rival, Cuban Capablanca, for the last twelve years. However, in Paris awaits a letter calling him up for military service, while the Reich urges him to join their cause and create a chess school for future German generations. In a moment when everything can still be decided over a chessboard, this chess genius makes a choice that will make him a hostage of the new owners of Europe, collaborating with Hans Frank and Joseph Goebbels. Little by little, the pieces of his own master playāhis wife, Grace, and Spielmann, Rubinstein, and Przepiorka, the persecuted great Jewish masters, formerly his best rivalsāwill fall one after another.
This book title, La diagonal Alekhine / The Alekhine Diagonal, ISBN: 9788420460932, by Arthur Larrue, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (April 19, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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