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The Lüneburg variation / Paolo Maurensig ; translated by Jon Rothschild.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: PQ4873.A8974 V3713 1997

Overview

Summary: A tale of chess rivalry between two men, which begins in the 1930s and continues into World War II. One of them becomes the Nazi commandant of a death camp, the other, a Jew, becomes its inmate. A first novel by an Italian writer.
Uniform Title: Variante di Lüneburg. English
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Maurensig, Paolo, 1943-2021.
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997
Locale: Germany
Edition: First Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition
Other Authors/Editors: Rothschild, Jon.

Physical Details

Language: English
ISBN: 0374194351
9780374194352
Physical Description: 139 pages ; 22 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Chess--Fiction. Internment camp inmates--Fiction. Nazi concentration camp inmates--Fiction. Nazi concentration camps--Fiction. Internment camps--Fiction. Germany--Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Fiction.

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