As the judge whispers the death sentence to Cincinnatus, a torturous period of waiting begins

Berlin in the late twenties provides the setting for this novel about a woman's scheme to murder her husband to live on his money with his nephew

Product Description: When Vladimir Nabokov died in 1977, he left instructions for his heirs to burn the 138 hand-written index cards that made up the rough draft of his final and unfinished novel, The Original of Laura. But Nabokov's wife, Vera, could not bear to destroy her husband's last work, and when she died, the fate of the manuscript fell to her son...read more