ZUGZWANG：A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 03635006B03766
English Summary/英文概要： Zugzwang: A chess term derived from the German, Zug (move) + Zwang (compulsion, obligation). It is used to describe a position in which a player is reduced to a state of utter helplessness; he is obliged to move, but every move only serves to make his position even worse.
ST PETERSBURG, 1914: imposing and shabby, monumental and squalid – and seething with plots and secret alliances. Om a blustery April day, O. V. Gulko, a respected newspaper editor, is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. Five days later Dr. Otto Spethmann, famous psychoanalyst, receives a visit from the police. There has been another murder in the city, and somehow he is implicated. He is mystified, and deeply worried, as much for his young spirited daughter as for himself.
He is preoccupied, too, by two new patients: Anne Petrovna, the society beauty with whom he is steadily and inappropriately falling in love, and Rozental, the brilliant but mentally fragile chess master, due to play the spectacular St Petersburg chess tournament – but on the verge of a complete breakdown.
In a city rife with speculation and alarm, Spethmann broods over his own chessboard, its pieces frozen mid-battle, and contemplates the many forces – political, historical, sexual – that are holding him in their grasp…
A compulsive and powerful new thriller in the tradition of The Interpretation of Murder and The Shadow of the Wind.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1914的聖比得堡，宏偉不朽的建築卻骯髒張破舊，受人敬重的一位報社編輯在鬧街被謀殺了，知名精神科醫生被要求協助調查，卻也被影射自己就是兇手，但真正讓他心裡不安的，是懷疑這件事情難道和自己家年輕患有精神病的女兒有關？
是他，還是他女兒，又或者是另外兩個他的病人？一位是因為感情受傷造成精神異常的社交名媛，另一位是在一次重要棋賽中敗北而精神崩裂的棋界高手。這是一場精神分析與智能考驗的比賽，人的精神可以很脆弱，也可以像把刀，逼人走入死胡同…
Awards/获奖情况：’A clever and exciting thriller a crime novel that’s both literary and gripping, a rare treat’ Daily Mail ’Brilliant atmospheric, ingenious and perfectly paced’ Independent on Sunday ’Full of murder, political intrigue and moral dilemmas, and, everywhere, there are lies and betrayal Zugzwang is a thriller with ambitions. It has echoes of Graham Greene, Brian Moore and Alan Furst Zugzwang is an entertaining and serious work of fiction’ TLS ’This classy, literate thriller is about chess, psychoanalysis, Russian skullduggery, history, mystery, romance - and more’ The Times
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China (Complex characters: Yuan-Liou), Croatia (Fraktura), France (Le Cherch Midi), Germany (Berlin Verlag), Italy (Longanesi), Netherlands (De Geus), Poland (Wydawnictwo Literackie), Romania (Humanitas), Spain (Grijalbo Mondadori), Sweden (Brombergs), Turkey (Turkuvaz Kitapcilik)
About the Author/作者介绍： Ronan Bennett was brought up in Belfast. He now lives in London. In 1990 he co-wrote Stolen Years: Before and After Guildford, Paul Hill’s highly praised account of his trial and imprisonment in the aftermath of the Guildford bombings. His other books include Overthrown by Strangers and The Catastrophist. His first novel, The Second Prison, was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus First Fiction Award. Havoc In Its Third Year was published in 2004 and was on the long-list for the Booker Prize.
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