Bend Sinister (Vintage International)
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The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.  While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state.  Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.  In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.
The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Novel by Vladimir Nabokov, published in 1947. It is the second novel the Russian-born author wrote in English. It tells the story of Adam Krug, a philosopher who disregards his country's totalitarian regime until his son David is killed by the forces he has attempted to ignore.
Bend Sinister (Vintage International)
Bend Sinister (Vintage International),Vladimir Nabokov,Vintage,0679727272,Fiction - General,Literary,Literature: Classics,Slavic (Language) Contemporary Fiction,Fiction / Literary
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