
My dreadful situation forced me … to try splitting myself into a Black self and a White self, to keep from being crushed by the terrible void around me A prisoner of the Nazis for years, what if your only stimulation was imagining games of chess against yourself, second-guessing your increasingly obsessed and divided brain? Then, decades later, you can play the World Champion, but might it return you to the edge of madness … and tip you over?
| Brand Name | Penguin |
| Manufacturer | Penguin Classics |
| Item Type | Classic Fiction · Books |
| Shipping Weight | 60 g |
| Package Dimensions | 18 × 11 × 1.1 cm |
| Category | Books › Literature & Fiction › Classic Fiction |
| Category Rank | #6,591 in Books |
| Marketplace Rating | 4.4 out of 5 (1K+ ratings on the source marketplace) |
| EAN | 9780241747292 |