Author: | Vladimir Nabokov | ISBN: | 9780307787576 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | February 16, 2011 |
Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
Author: | Vladimir Nabokov |
ISBN: | 9780307787576 |
Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication: | February 16, 2011 |
Imprint: | Vintage |
Language: | English |
Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds--but at a terrible cost.
Glory is the wryly ironic story of Martin Edelweiss, a twenty-two-year-old Russian émigré of no account, who is in love with a girl who refuses to marry him. Convinced that his life is about to be wasted and hoping to impress his love, he embarks on a "perilous, daredevil project"--an illegal attempt to re-enter the Soviet Union, from which he and his mother had fled in 1919. He succeeds--but at a terrible cost.