Mary

Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can to laughter that is near to tears Guardian Lev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian émigrés. Alone in his room he dreams of his first love Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of preRevolution Russia Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellowboarder due to arrive at this very house soon. He longs for her arrival when he can whisk her away and leave everything behind ...