Glory

Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him.  . The themes we associate with Nabokov — the romance of emigres sexual frustration the nostalgia of youth — shine again sorrowfully or blithely but always adding an illuminating dimension to what went before or what comes after. -Kirkus Reviews. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love Martin embarks on a perilous daredevil project--an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds--but at a terrible cost.