Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 208 pages | ISBN 9780141186528 | 25 Oct 2001 | Penguin Classic
In Berlin there lived a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable and happy but one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress he loved. He was not loved in return, however, and his life ended in disaster. The original Russian text of this novel was published in 1933.
‘The variety, force and richness of Nabokov’s perceptions have not even the palest rival in modern fiction’ Martin Amis, New Statesman
