Nils Poppe
Series
Pub. Date
[1998], c1957
Description
In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death, with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as a cultural turmoil envelops the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.