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ISBN-10: 0739342096
ISBN-13: 9780739342091
Oct 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
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Language: English |
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Synopsis
First published in serialized from in the UK newspaper The Observer, ZUGZWANG is a convoluted and gripping thriller set in St. Petersburg circa 1914, a time of Bolshevik revolution and Tsarist oppression. Jewish psychoanalyst Otto Spethmann lives happily above the fray, preferring to analyze the dreams of others rather than endangering his safe middle-class life. However, when both the police and the revolutionary factions begin to take an unhealthy interest in Otto and his 18-year-old daughter, Otto finds himself in a labyrinth of fake identities, bizarre conspiracies, brutal murders, and a chess tournament whose winner will have a perfect opportunity to murder the Tsar of Russia.
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"Eminently satisfying... a noirish page-turner, complete with shifting allegiances and executions in dark alleyways. ZUGZWANG also returns repeatedly to the connection between the political and the personal....Elegan[tly] blends a gripping plot with a serious meditation on politics and morality. ZUGZWANG does not merely offer pleasures both high and low--it erases the distinction. The novel is exciting because of the moral seriousness of its situations. Bennett's talent is unique and writers of slicker thrillers would do well to take his work as a lesson in the titillation of the mind."
(11/06/2007)
"[E]dgy and evocative....[Ronan Bennett's] taut authorial control is evident on every page of this gripping tale."
(11/12/2007)
"A Hitchcockian premise, delivered with all the narrative skill and conviction of Brian Moore or Graham Green."
(12/01/2007)
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