{"product_id":"theory-of-shadows-by-paolo-maurensig-9781250310316","title":"Theory of Shadows","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the morning of March 24, 1946, the world chess champion Alexander Alekhine was found dead in his hotel room in Estoril, Portugal. He was fully dressed and wearing an overcoat, slumped back in a chair, in front of a meal, a chessboard just out of reach. The doctor overseeing the autopsy certified that Alekhine choked on a piece of meat, maintaining that there was no evidence of suicide or foul play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome, of course, have commented that the photos of the corpse look suspiciously theatrical. Others have wondered why Alekhine would have sat down to his dinner in a hot room while wearing a heavy overcoat. And what about the rumours concerning Alekhine's anti-Semitic activities during World War II? Is it true that his homeland, Russia, considered him a traitor, as well as a possible threat to the new generation of supposedly superior Soviet chess masters?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the atmosphere of a thriller and the insight of a poem, Paolo Maurensig's \u003cem\u003eTheory of Shadows\u003c\/em\u003e leads us through the life and death of Alekhine: not so much trying to figure out whodunit as using the story of one infuriating and unapologetic genius to tease out \"that which the novel alone can discover.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers of Laurent Binet's \u003cem\u003eHHhH\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244644118764,"sku":"9781250310316","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250310316-theory-of-shadows-1.jpg?v=1788007643","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/theory-of-shadows-by-paolo-maurensig-9781250310316","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}