The Chess Garden
Published on 31. December 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
515 pages
978-0-340-62288-9 (ISBN)
Description
In Ohio in 1900, the wife of Dr Uyterhoeven receives some extraordinary letters from her elderly husband describing a fantastic country inhabited by warring chess pieces, dominoes and dice. Gradually, a story unfolds of his earlier life, and the origins of his extraordinary philosophy.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 32 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 199 mm
Weight
393 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-340-62288-9 (9780340622889)
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Person
Hansen was born in 1965 and graduated from Harvard in 1987. He lives in New York and has an avid interest in sport, music and television.