Cleaning Nabokov's House

11 hrs. 13 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Leslie Daniels

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

“I understood I could stay in this town when I fished a blue enameled pot out of the lake. The pot led me to a house, the house to a book, the book to an attorney, the attorney to a house of meetings, the house of meetings to science, and from science I stepped into the world,”—Barbara, the heroine of Leslie Danyiel’s novel, begins her story, with the reader meeting her at a critical moment in her life. Having found herself in a provincial little town, a former New Yorker lost not only friends and work, but also her children—taken from her in court by a “character from the past,” her ex-husband. However, that same pot led her to a house where, rumor has it, once lived… Vladimir Nabokov! “An impressive shed” immediately won Barbara’s heart, and she decided that no matter what she would buy it and furnish it. Cleaning in Nabokov’s house turned into an astonishing discovery that changed not only Barbara’s further fate, but the life of the entire town. This incredible story is the debut novel by American author Leslie Danyiel, newly published in the United States and already winning over the first readers with its vivid originality and wit.