Chess Story Lemn Sissay Seems like a lot of

Seems like a lot of effort

More than just a historical recounting

From the green fields of County Cork to the battlefields of Waterloo

is granted an audience with a young Thai princess—an encounter that radically alters the course of his life

Exquisitely translated by Susan Bernofsky

Chess Story Lemn Sissay Seems like a lot ofNew York Review Books Classics. Chess Storyalso known as The Royal Gameis Stefan Zweigs final and haunting work, written in exile in Brazil and sent to his American publisher just days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only fiction in which Zweig confronts Nazism directly, doing so in his signature way: through an intense exploration of the human psyche. Aboard a ship traveling from New York to Buenos Aires, passengers discover they are sharing