Cerd Paco (9 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. In this gripping historical saga, award-winning Spanish writer Paco Cerdà explores simmering Cold War anxieties through the lens of a legendary chess match.Stockholm, 1962. Spain's first chess grandmaster, Arturito Pomar, faces off against eighteen-year-old American prodigy Bobby Fischer in a match destined for legend, celebrated more for its symbolism than for its outcome. Shuttling across decades and between the United States, Spain, the Soviet Union, and beyond, The Pawn chronicles the contentious careers of the two chess masters, expertly examining the geopolitical anxieties of the 1960s that went on to shape not just the lives of these men, but the modern world.Perfect for fans of The Storm We Made and The Queen's Gambit, The Pawn explores the intricate shadow layers between gameplay and warfare, strategy and sedition, pawn and puppet. In this incisive and timely rendering, Cerdà presents a devastatingly human portrait of "the many exceptional people whose lives were sacrificed on the altar of Cold War interests" (The New York Times).

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Paperback. Condition: New. In this gripping historical saga, award-winning Spanish writer Paco Cerdà explores simmering Cold War anxieties through the lens of a legendary chess match.Stockholm, 1962. Spain's first chess grandmaster, Arturito Pomar, faces off against eighteen-year-old American prodigy Bobby Fischer in a match destined for legend, celebrated more for its symbolism than for its outcome. Shuttling across decades and between the United States, Spain, the Soviet Union, and beyond, The Pawn chronicles the contentious careers of the two chess masters, expertly examining the geopolitical anxieties of the 1960s that went on to shape not just the lives of these men, but the modern world.Perfect for fans of The Storm We Made and The Queen's Gambit, The Pawn explores the intricate shadow layers between gameplay and warfare, strategy and sedition, pawn and puppet. In this incisive and timely rendering, Cerdà presents a devastatingly human portrait of "the many exceptional people whose lives were sacrificed on the altar of Cold War interests" (The New York Times).

Condition: Nuevo. Un recorregut literari sobre les persones que van ser sacrificades per salvar una causa iniciada pel poder als seus països.El peó situa el cor de la trama a Estocolm, l'hivern del 1962. Allà, sobre un tauler d'escacs, es disputa una partida entre dos homes de mons oposats. El mallorquí Arturo Pomar, lÆArturito, el nen prodigi que el No-Do va instrumentalitzar durant la postguerra fins a convertir-lo en la icona d'una Espanya en blanc i negre i un americà jove, excèntric i ambiciós: el gran mestre Bobby Fischer. Tots dos van servir el poder de manera indirecta. Tots dos van ser peons: un, del franquisme; lÆaltre, de la guerra freda. Paco Cerdà basteix una història sobre el compromís polític, els escacs i el poder aixecada al voltant dels setanta-set moviments d'aquell enfrontament mític. A les seves pàgines sÆhi traça la crònica de nombrosos «peons» que van sacrificar la vida per les seves idees arreu del món.

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