by Julio Castedo · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408170495
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«El jugador de ajedrez» is the historical novel by Julio Castedo, published by Booket in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
In 1934 Madrid, Diego Padilla, a chess champion, meets French journalist Marianne Latour. When the civil war breaks out, exile in occupied France ends with an espionage accusation that leads him to prison, where his survival depends on the love, hope, and passion for chess of a Nazi colonel.
First novel by Julio Castedo, reissued by Booket in 2017 in the Novela collection; the cover presents it as «La novela llevada al cine».
For readers of fiction with a wartime backdrop, set in 1930s Spain and occupied France.
