Friday, June 6, 2008

Vladimir Nabokov's Lost Story

I am terribly excited. The New Yorker will publish a previously untranslated story by Vladimir Nabokov, the author of the novel about love, obsession, and pedophilia - Lolita. The story, titled "Natasha," is about a young woman who cares for an ill father while morning their exile from Russia. Nabokov wrote the story in 1942, five years after his own father's exile from Russian. Nabokov's son, Dmitri, translated the story.

"Natash" will appear in the summer fiction issue of The New Yorker, which is on news stands June 9th.

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