THE GAMES

A complete novel. Eighty-three chapters, forty-six games, nine years. Noah Berg and Gabriel Stone have sat three feet apart, four times a year, in a room where speaking is against the rules — and neither has ever said the thing. The narrative follows the logic of a tournament, where each chapter is a move, each silence a decision, and the quiet intimacy of response is the whole game. This is a story of men who take years to resign, told through the lens of a tournament hall at night.