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While 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. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to share this book. Like one of his later russianlanguage novels, invitation to a beheading, it is explicitly political, in a way generally foreign to nabokov. Goodreads members who liked bend sinister also liked. When the november wind has its recurrent icy spasm, a rudimentary vortex of ripples creases the brightness of the puddle.

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