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Name: Transparent Things

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Year: 1972
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Popularity: 1.7
Genres/categories: Classic
Culture: Russia

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ISBN:
9780070456990
9780140086249
0070456992
0140086242
"Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past... The several strands of dream, memory, and time [are] set off against the literary theorizing of R. and, more centrally, against the world of observable objects." Martin Amis
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