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Theory of Shadows: A Novel

By Paulo Maurensig
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By Paulo Maurensig
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"Uses the game of chess as a vehicle to meditate on the Holocaust . . . Maurensig investigates the cost of complicity with evil." —Elizabeth Fifer, World Literature Today

On the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine—"sadist of the chess world," renowned for his eccentric behavior as well as the ruthlessness of his playing style—was found dead in his hotel room in Estoril, Portugal. The doctor overseeing the autopsy certified that Alekhine died of asphyxiation...

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