The chess garden, or, The twilight letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven

Brooks Hansen

earliest edition we have, 1995 Riverhead Books, 1996 464 pages

In the fall of 1900, Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven left the chess garden that he and his wife, Sonja, had created together in Dayton, Ohio, and journeyed to South Africa to serve as a doctor in the British concentration camps of the Boer War. Over the next ten months he sent twelve chess pieces and twelve letters back to Sonja. She set out her husband's gifts as they arrived and welcomed all the most faithful guests of the...

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The chess garden, or, The twilight letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven edition · 1996 · Riverhead Books · 464 pages
chess garden, or, The twilight letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven edition · 1995 · Sceptre · 515 pages
The chess garden, or, the twilight letters of Gustav Uyterhoeven edition · 1995 · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 481 pages

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