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Alone in a room with nothing but an old mirror and a chess set, a young boy anticipates a boring afternoon until the chess pieces (the reflections, not the real ones) suddenly come to life. When the White King invites our hero to visit the other side of the mirror, the excitement begins. On the other side, all rules are reversed, and you can meet anyone who's ever looked into the mirror. This bewildering adventure causes the boy to ask himself the strangest questions: What is a mirror like, when no one is looking at it? What if the reflected world is more real than the one where he lives? And speaking of his world, how will he ever get back?

Like Lewis Carroll in the Alice books, Massimo Bontempelli takes us down a wondrous path where nothing is more absurd than reason and where every rule (whether it belongs to the laws of logic or the laws of grownups) becomes a plaything for the mind. In twenty-four brief chapters, each as elegant as a chess move, Bontempelli creates a delightful fantasy about the freedom of the imagination and the mysterious pleasures of thinking-a story that might be called "metaphysical," were it not so entertaining! ... Read more