La diagonal Alekhine / The Alekhine Diagonal (Spanish Edition)

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La increíble vida de Aleksandr Alekhine, conocido como «el sádico del ajedrez», «más inmoral que Richard Wagner y que Jack el Destripador», consagrado por el zar, perseguido por Stalin, esbirro de Goebbels.

«Un gran libro entre el thriller iniciático y la reconstrucción histórica [...]. Diabólico Alekhine, malévolo Larrue. ¡Una novela que no hay que perderse!»
Gilles Pudlowski, Service Littéraire

«Cuento los imperios que he visto derrumbarse a lo largo de mi vida. El imperio zarista, el imperio austrohúngaro, el imperio otomano y el imperio nazi. Queda el mío, mi imperio de sesenta y cuatro casillas.»

A sus cuarenta y siete años, el campeón del mundo de ajedrez Aleksandr Aleksándrovich Alekhine, ruso de nacimiento y nacionalizado francés, 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 jarrón de porcelana que no lo abandona desde que, siendo un adolescente, lo recibiera como trofeo de manos del zar Nicolás II. El hombre al que el compositor Harold Schonberg describió como «más inmoral que Richard Wagner y que Jack el Destripador» no tiene otra preocupación que la revancha que lleva doce años negando a su eterno rival, el cubano Capablanca. Sin embargo, en París le espera una carta llamándole 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 aún decidirse en el tablero, el genio del ajedrez toma una resolución que lo convertirá en rehén de los nuevos dueños 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, Przepiórka: los grandes maestros judíos perseguidos, antaño sus mejores rivales# irán cayendo una tras otra.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

The amazing life of Aleksandr Alekhine, known as “the sadist of chess”, “more immoral than Richard Wagner and Jack the Ripper”, enshrined by the tsar, persecuted by Stalin, and Goebbels’ minion.

“A great book between initiation thriller and historical reconstruction [...]. Diabolical Alekhine, evil Larrue. A novel you can’t miss!” Gilles Pudlowski, Service Littéraire

“I 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.”
 
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.
 
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 “more immoral that Richard Wagner and Jack the Ripper” 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 play—his wife, Grace, and Spielmann, Rubinstein, and Przepiorka, the persecuted great Jewish masters, formerly his best rivals—will fall one after another.

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Product Details

Author:
Arthur Larrue
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
280
Publisher:
PRH Grupo Editorial (April 26, 2022)
Language:
Spanish
ISBN-13:
9788420460932
ISBN-10:
8420460931
Weight:
15.4oz
Dimensions:
6.02" x 9.44" x 0.73"
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$19.95
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20
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Publisher Identifier:
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Discount Code:
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Audience:
General/trade
Country of Origin:
Spain
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
Alfaguara

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