''Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears'' Guardian

Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian émigrés. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, MaryAwash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due to arrive at this very house soon. He longs for her arrival, when he can whisk her away and leave everything behind ...

Format Häftad Omfång 128 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Penguin Books Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2009-11-05 ISBN 9780141191478