The Gift
403 pages
|Published: 28 Oct 2038
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ISBN: 9780141185873
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: 1 January 2017
Description
The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career. It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative: the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--a book very much like The Gift itself.