Bücher der Reihe Pushkin Collection

Anxious to please his father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy, Mihaly 'loses' his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic journey.

A superb early postmodern classic by one of Nabokov's fellow emigre writers, rediscovered after more than half a century