{"product_id":"9781400041985","title":"Pnin","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, \u003ci\u003ePnin\u003c\/i\u003e features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunder-standings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInitially an almost grotesquely comic figure, Pnin gradually grows in stature by contrast with those who laugh at him. Whether taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has not mastered or throwing a faculty party during which he learns he is losing his job, the gently preposterous hero of this enchanting novel evokes the reader’s deepest protective instinct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSerialized in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and published in book form in 1957, \u003ci\u003ePnin\u003c\/i\u003e brought Nabokov both his first National Book Award nomination and hitherto unprecedented popularity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049642410224,"sku":"9781400041985","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400041985_p0.jpg?v=1763711931","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400041985","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}