The Pawn on the Chessboard

By Irène Némirovsky

Ir?ne N?mirovskyLe Pion sur l'?chiquierSet in France during the economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties, Le Pion sur l'?chiquier is an unflinching portrait of a man for whom life has lost all meaning. Son of a dying steel magnate whose investments crashed, Christophe Bohun works in an International News Agency and lives together with his dying father, wife, mistress and son, in dilapidated grandeur. At a time of external hardship, he appears to have everything and value nothing. Where his father was driven by a ruthless passion for high finance and his teenage son is eaten up with suppressed anger, N?mirovsky presents us with an anti-hero whose bleak interior life is an object lesson in alienation and emotional numbness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481077090
• ISBN13: 9781481077095
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"