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Pnin - Penguin Modern Classics (Paperback)

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Paperback 176 Pages
Published: 07/12/2000
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Tender-hearted and empathetic, Nabokov’s account of an émigré Russian professor struggling through a tenure at an American university wrings belly laughs from the wistful and melancholy.

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.

Wry, intelligent and moving, Pnin reveals the absurd and affecting story of one man in exile.

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780141183756
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 135 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 10 mm

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“Beautifully hilarious, and heartbreakingly sad”

Timofey Pnin has been an immigrant in america for almost thirty-five years; in some ways he has naturalised, but not completely. He still struggles with train times, roads, the difference between cartoons and... More

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