Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr
Jacques Fache
Born in 1964, author of several academic works and a novel, In the Shadow of Chaos (2017, Le Lamantin), Jacques Fache is also a chess player passionate about the game and the lives of great champions, an inexhaustible source of inspiration.
In 1960, Karpabov, the Soviet world chess champion at the height of his powers, arrives in Paris to meet Jenny Smith, the young American world champion, in a friendly match. Friendly? Very quickly, Karpabov realizes that this is not the case against an opponent whose enigmatic hatred is matched only by her talent. He gradually understands that he is playing his life on a very small game, each move of which plunges him back into a past he thought was forever buried. Far from texts centered on madness, fantasy, or Machiavellian crime, this novel offers an immersion in a game that is conceived as a weapon of war. The chessboard becomes a loaded revolver, and the shots its detonations. Publication date: June 1, 2024 Order
