by John Donoghue · Giunti Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788809845664
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«La scacchiera di Auschwitz» is the historical novel by John Donoghue, published by Giunti Editore in paperback (400 pages, in Italian).
In November 1943, SS officer Paul Meissner is posted to Auschwitz, where he creates a chess club. He discovers Emil Clément, a Jewish prisoner called the Clockmaker, and forces him to play against the Nazis with lives at stake. Twenty years later, they meet again in Amsterdam: Meissner seeks redemption and Clément, reconciliation with the past.
Debut novel by John Donoghue, published in 2017; original title, The Death's Head Chess Club. Tascabili Giunti collection.
For readers of historical fiction and thrillers set in World War II and the Holocaust.
