Deaths Head Chess Club
Readers have been blown away by The Death's Head Chess Club - a deeply poignant and moving debut novel about the extraordinary relationship between an SS officer and a Jewish watchmaker.
Can you ever forgive the unforgivable?
In 1962, Emil Clément comes face to face with Paul Meissner at a chess tournament in Holland. They haven't seen one another in almost two decades. Clément, once known only as The Watchmaker, is a Jewish former inmate of Auschwitz. Whilst there, he was forced to play chess against Nazi guards. If he won, he could save a fellow prisoner's life; if he lost, he would lose his own. Meissner, a soft-spoken priest, was also at Auschwitz. He was the SS Officer who forced The Watchmaker to play...
Auteur | | John Donoghue |
Taal | | Engels |
Type | | Paperback |
Categorie | | Literatuur & Romans |