Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw
by Thomas Glavinic
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Carl Haffner is a Vienesse chess master, facing in 1910 the greatest challenge of his life. He has been persuaded to challenge Emmanuel Lasker, the brilliant World Champion for his title. But Haffner is a shy, fragile man, who has escaped poverty only though his extraordinary gift for chess.Tags
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- Canonical title
- Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw
- Original title
- Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschieden
- Original publication date
- 1998
- Important places*
- Wien, Österreich
- Original language*
- Deutsch
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
- LCC
- PT2667 .L38 .C3713 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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