Book description
Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a
host of Russian migr s. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love,
Mary. Awash 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 ...
Vladimir Nabokov was born in 1899 in St Petersburg. He wrote his first
literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a
masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most
famously,
Lolita
. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems
and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one
of the most outstanding Russian migr writers. He died in 1977.
