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Knopf
November 2009
On Sale: November 17, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 0307271897
EAN: 9780307271891
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Fiction Family Life
When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 handwritten index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokovโs wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husbandโs last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son. Dmitri Nabokov, now seventy-fiveโthe Russian novelistโs only surviving heir, and translator of many of his booksโhas wrestled for three decades with the decision of whether to honor his fatherโs wish or preserve for posterity the last piece of writing of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. His decision finally to allow publication of the fragmented narrativeโdark yet playful, preoccupied with mortalityโaffords us one last experience of Nabokovโs magnificent creativity, the quintessence of his unparalleled body of work.
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