Machenka

Novel by Vladimir Nabokov

Blurb

Mary is a gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia--Nabokov's first novel. In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly unappealing boarder living in the room next to Ganin's, who, he discovers, is Mary's husband, temporarily separated from her by the Revolution but expecting her imminent arrival from Russia.

First Published

1926

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Ksenia

Ksenia

I love the atmosphere of the narrative: Berlin in the 20s, alive desires to change the current living situation, romantic memories, picturesque descriptions of the everyday life and some unexpected actions.

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TidyPanda

Tidypanda

One of the most beautifully written books I've ever encountered. At once entrancingly joyous in language, and soul shakingly affective in its horrors.

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