Pnin

<b>Vladimir Nabokov</b> (1899-1977) born in St Petersburg exiled in Cambridge Berlin and Paris became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940 he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century and even 'God's own novelist' (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards and died in Montreux Switzerland. All his major works - novels stories an autobiography poems plays lectures essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics. <p>Professor Timofey Pnin late of Tsarist Russia is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master.<br><br>Wry intelligent and moving <i>Pnin</i> reveals the absurd and affecting story of one man in exile.</p>