» Update your details

This book

• Synopsis
• Reviews
• Product details

About Vladimir Nabokov

• Biography
• More titles by Vladimir Nabokov

Synopsis

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Nabokov's other great love story - offers even more sexual and imaginative surprises than Lolita. A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van on his uncle's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, Nabokov's 'longest, richest, most ambitious novel' also becomes, as Brian Boyd says, a great many other things: 'myth, fairy tale, utopian idyll, family chronicle, personal memoir, historical romance, erotic catalogue ... picture gallery and filmic folly'.

Reviews

Customer Review: 06 December 2004

Reviewer: Pat Anderson

Awesome. The kind of labrynthine epic that will have you finding new allusions and meanings with every read.

» Submit a review

Critic Review:

'He derived from no other writers and leaves no true imitators' - Time

'His most gracious compliment to the United States was to merge it, in Ada, with the Russia of his memory to make one paradisal Antiterra' - John Updike

'His puns, echoes and chimes are not inserted currants but the texture of the pastry itself, and the resulting confection is a miraculous mille-feuille. Or, if you prefer, a madeleine' - Eric Korn in The Times Literary Supplement

'A real magician' - Paul Bailey in the Observer

Product details

Delivery

Shipped within 24hrs.
FREE UK Delivery*

• Full delivery details

• » View your basket