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Loading... La torre herida por el rayo (original 1983; edition 2001)by Fernando Arrabal
Work InformationLa torre herida por el rayo by Fernando Arrabal (1983)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Elías Tarsis y Marc Amary son dos genios enfrentados. Ante ellos, el tablero sobre el que se decidirá el campeonato del mundo de ajedrez. A sus espaldas, dos complejas historias personales marcadas por el amor, las fobias, las intrigas políticas y la casualidad. Ganadora del premio Nadal de novela y del Nabokov internacional de novela, «La torre herida por el rayo» recorre, al ritmo de las jugadas que se suceden sobre la mesa, las trayectorias de estos dos antagonistas, conduciendo al lector por entre los vericuetos del singular y siempre sorprendente mundo nacido de la pluma de Fernando Arrabal. no reviews | add a review
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"The final, definitive match in the competition for the World Chess Championship is about to begin. Contenders Elias Tarsis and Marc Amary take their places at the board. The judges' implacable clock begins to tick, and a hush falls over the capacity crowd in Paris's Beaubourg Center Theater. But before the players can make their first moves, they are distracted by news of the kidnapping of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat. Tarsis--an artist and an intuitive genius--is convinced that his despised opponent--a world-renowned physicist--is behind the kidnapping. So begins the game, and so begins this darkly comic, metaphysical mystery novel ..."--Jckt. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)843.914Literature French and related languages French fiction Modern Period 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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