Death's head chess club, paperback/john donoghue

An intelligent novel exploring the difficulties of guilt and forgiveness in an impossible friendship between a Nazi and a Jew.

Wounded SS Obersturmfuhrer Paul Meissner is posted to Auschwitz to improve flagging camp morale, and soon sets up a thriving chess club among the officers.

When Meissner hears that chess is also played by the prisoners, including an unbeatable Jewish watchmaker, he sets out to discover the truth to this rumour.

What he finds will haunt him to his death.

Now in paperback, this will appeal to readers of John Boynes }The Boy In Striped Pyjamas{ and Bernhard Schlinks }The Reader{.