Pnin

Name: Pnin
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780307787477

Vladimir Nabokov

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Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov

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#3047 of 8,085 books · #1461 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1958).

Pnin won the National Book Award nomination and was published in book form in 1957. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator. Initially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader's deepest protective instinct.

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