Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov Hardback Book 9780241638422

Professor Timofey Pnin late of Tsarist Russia is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus Battling with American life and language Pnin must face great hazards in this new world the ruination of his beautiful lumberroomasoffice the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones the search for a suitable boarding house and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to masterWry intelligent and moving Pnin reveals the absurd and affecting story of one man in exile