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Zugzwang by Bennett, Ronan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Zugzwang about?

"St Petersburg, 1914. Dr Otto Spethmann, a famous psychoanalyst, is implicated in a murder. But he is preoccupied with Avrom Rozental, the brilliant chess master who is due to play the most important competition of his life but is on the verge of a breakdown. With the city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the forces - political, historical, sexual - that are holding him in their grasp..."

Who reads Zugzwang?

Author

Bennett, Ronan

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781596917040

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, True Crime, Fiction

Rating

3.77 / 5 (36 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13