Praise for “A tale of crime and punishment… a foretaste of one of this century’s great novels.”
“Sensuous, amusing, scary… Nabokov lifts [] through the exhilarating artistry of his poetic and explicit language.”
“[ is] in the top class of Nabokov’s work.”
—John Bayley, (London)“Elegantly written and exquisitely shaped.”
“One of the most exciting novellas ever written, Nabokov near, or at least clearly anticipating, his very best.”