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Theory of Shadows (Paperback)
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Theory of Shadows (Paperback)
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On the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion
Alexander Alekhine was found dead in his hotel room in Estoril,
Portugal. He was fully dressed and wearing an overcoat, slumped
back in a chair, in front of a meal, a chessboard just out of
reach. The doctor overseeing the autopsy certified that Alekhine
choked on a piece of meat, maintaining that there was no evidence
of suicide or foul play. Some, of course, have commented that the
photos of the corpse look suspiciously theatrical. Others have
wondered why Alekhine would have sat down to his dinner in a hot
room while wearing a heavy overcoat. And what about the rumors
concerning Alekhine's anti-Semetic activities during World War II?
Is it true that his homeland, Russia, considered him a traitor, as
well as a possible threat to the new generation of supposedly
superior Soviet chess masters? With the atmosphere of a thriller
and the insight of a poem, Paolo Maurensig's Theory of Shadows
leads us through the life and death of Alekhine: not so much trying
to figure out whodunit as using the story of one infuriating and
unapologetic genius to tease out "that which the novel alone can
discover."
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