Scacco Alla Regina Eva Henger -

“ Scacco ,” she says to no one.

The title hangs in the air: Scacco alla regina . A check to the queen. Not checkmate. Not yet. Because a queen, in chess and in life, never falls without taking three pieces with her. scacco alla regina eva henger

Scacco alla regina —it sounds like a film noir, a thriller, a novel where the first chapter ends with a gun in a purse. Perhaps it is the story of a woman who plays chess with a magnate. He thinks he controls the board. She lets him. Until she moves her queen diagonally across six squares and says, quietly: Scacco . “ Scacco ,” she says to no one