| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
372 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
In St. Petersburg, Russia, world chess champion Aleksandr Bezetov begins a quixotic quest. With his renowned Cold War?era tournaments behind him, Aleksandr has turned to politics, launching a dissident presidential campaign against Vladimir Putin. He knows he will not win?and that he is risking his life in the process?but a deeper conviction propels him forward. And in the same way that he cannot abandon his aims, he cannot erase the memory of a mysterious woman he loved in his youth. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, thirty-year-old English lecturer Irina Ellison is on an improbable quest of her own. Certain she has inherited Huntington?s disease?the same cruel illness that ended her father?s life?she struggles with a sense of purpose. When Irina finds an old, photocopied letter her father had written to the young Aleksandr Bezetov, she makes a fateful decision. Her father had asked the Soviet chess prodigy a profound question?How does one proceed against a lost cause??but never received an adequate reply. Leaving everything behind, Irina travels to Russia to find Bezetov and get an answer for her father, and for herself. |
| Subject |
Chess players -- Russia (Federation) -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781400069774 alkaline paper |
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1400069777 alkaline paper |
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