The Gift
Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
ISBN: 9780141185873
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 416
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Nabokov's final Russian novel
The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.
ISBN: 9780141185873
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 416
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 17mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Nabokov's final Russian novel
The Gift is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian intellectuals in Berlin shortly after the First World War. This gorgeous tapestry of literature and butterflies tells the story of Fyodor's pursuits as a writer. Its heroine is not Fyodor's elusive and beloved Zina, however, but Russian prose and poetry themselves.
