Name: The Great Chess Master: The Seven Lampstands (en Inglés)
SKU: 69237844
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Author: Paton, Don
ISBN: 9798173470508

portada The Great Chess Master: The Seven Lampstands (en Inglés)

The Great Chess Master: The Seven Lampstands (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Independently published

Autor

Paton, Don

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

291

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9798173470508

The Great Chess Master: The Seven Lampstands (en Inglés)

Paton, Don (Autor) · Independently published · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "The Great Chess Master: The Seven Lampstands (en Inglés)"

A prisoner too old to work a quarry, an indifferent young guard assigned to watch him, and seven letters neither of them could be certain would ever reach anyone. Bellon was twenty when they handed him the old man nobody else wanted, exiled to a stone island for refusing to burn a pinch of incense like every other subject of the empire. An easy prisoner, everyone said. No trouble at all. Bellon believed it too, for months, until the old man began writing. Seven letters, to seven rooms scattered across the empire's own reach, each one addressed to a gathering the old man had never visited and might never see again. A room grown wealthy and forgotten what it once suffered for. A room with nothing left to lose, and for that reason impossible to touch. A room still lukewarm about a truth it had long since stopped finding urgent. Each room gets its own telling, and its own reckoning, decades later, when the letter's warning has either been kept or quietly let go. Bellon didn't choose to become the man who watched this happen. He simply couldn't stop watching. Three years on that island changed a soldier with no particular interest in religion into someone who left unable to say exactly what he now believed, only that he had been present for something he did not have the words to properly explain, and never quite managed to forget. Book Eight of The Great Chess Master. Seven rooms, examined honestly, no lamp given credit for its own oil. The empire is still watching. Not every room survives being watched. Some, having nothing left to lose, cannot be touched by it at all.