{"product_id":"the-pawn-9781646053780","title":"The Pawn","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this gripping historical saga, award-winning Spanish writer Paco Cerd? explores early Cold War anxieties through the lens of a famous chess match.\u003c\/b\u003eStockholm, 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 beyond, \u003ci\u003eThe Pawn\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the careers of the two chess masters, expertly examining the geopolitical anxieties that pervaded the 1960s and went on to shape these men's lives.Perfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eThe Storm We Made\u003c\/i\u003e and The Queen's Gambit, \u003ci\u003eThe Pawn \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the contentious shadow layers between game and politic, match and war, pawn and political tool. In this empathetic, incisive rendering, Cerd? \"presents both players as among the many exceptional people whose lives were sacrificed on the altar of Cold War interests\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646053780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268","brand":"Paco Cerd?","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45302246834357,"sku":"9781646053780","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_ef445ee6-7391-4cf6-aca5-1a648de0afa3.jpg?v=1744724786","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-pawn-9781646053780","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}