Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Nabokov, Vladimir |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Date: | 4/14/1990 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state.
Professor Adam Krug, the country’s foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug’s support in order to validate the new regime.
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