In this gripping historical saga, award-winning Spanish writer Paco Cerdà explores early Cold War anxieties through the lens of a famous chess match.Stockholm, 1962. Spain’s first chess grandmaster, Arturito Pomar, faces off against eighteen-year-old American prodigy Bobby Fischer in a match that will become the stuff of legend, not so much for how it ends but for what it symbolizes. Shuttling back and forth across decades between the United States, Spain, the Soviet Union, and bey...

The Spanish bestseller: an award-winning work of narrative non-fiction that tells of a journey into a heart of darkness in the aftermath of the Civil WarAutumn 1939. The Spanish Civil War is over – Franco’s fascist forces have triumphed. In a cemetery in Alicante, the remains of the late fascist leader José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Franco’s inspiration and mentor, are being exhumed. On the Generalissimo’s orders, soldiers will carry de Rivera’s coffin on their shou...

In this gripping historical saga, award-winning Spanish writer Paco Cerdà explores simmering Cold War anxieties through the lens of a legendary chess match.Stockholm, 1962. Spain's first chess grandmaster, Arturito Pomar, faces off against eighteen-year-old American prodigy Bobby Fischer in a match destined for legend, celebrated more for its symbolism than for its outcome. Shuttling across decades and between the United States, Spain, the Soviet Union, and beyond,...