Description: Readers meet one of Nabokov's funniest and most heartrending characters: Timofey Pnin, a professor of Russian at an American college, who lectures in a language he cannot master.
Review Quotes: "Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically." --John Updike
"Has there ever been a better novel written about a fumbling Russian émigré?" --Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author of Our Country Friends "Hilariously funny and of a sadness." --Graham Greene, acclaimed author of The Quiet American and The End of the Affair "Pnin's vita, though its essence is saintliness, is yet a work of brilliant magic and fabulous laughter." --The New Republic"Fun and satire are just the beginning of the rewards of this novel. Generous, bewildered Pnin, that most kindly and impractical of men, wins our affection and respect." --Chicago Tribune "Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way the masters can--to laughter that is near to tears." --The Guardian