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The Luneburg Variation
The Luneburg Variation
Author: Paolo Maurensig, Jon Rothschild
At the opening of this amazing fiction, a cadaver is discovered, the body of a wealthy businessman from Vienna, apparently a suicide without plausible motivation. Next to the body is a chessboard made of rags with buttons for pieces whose positions on the board may hold the only clue. As the plot of this passionately colored, coolly controlled t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374194352
ISBN-10: 0374194351
Publication Date: 11/1997
Pages: 139
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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reviewed The Luneburg Variation on + 195 more book reviews
a psychological thriller that begins with a mystereious suicide and
brings us thru the nazi death camp where chess was a game of life and
death.
jazzcat avatar reviewed The Luneburg Variation on + 2 more book reviews
The story was interesting. I was hoping for more chess play, but the book was a good whodunnit.
reviewed The Luneburg Variation on + 4 more book reviews
I loved this book for many reasons. There is an implied thriller in the book and the chess game is a character in the story. It is a great book if you are interested in the impact of history and anything post WW11 with the psychological implications. I have give this book as a present to many of my friends who deal with the psycho social effects of war, Post Traumatic Stress and complications of life.


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