PNIN - Penguin Modern Classics

Nabokov's comic masterpiece charts the wry, bizarre progress of professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, now precariously perched on a college campus in the fast-beating heart of the USA. A man of complex emotions, Pnin does halting battle with the American life and language. But in this moving, amusing story of a seeming born loser at odds with the New World, there is all the pathos of a generation cruelly and irrecoverably severed from its past.