Bend Sinister

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote,Bend Sinisteris a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man. In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.Nabokov, Vladimir is the author of 'Bend Sinister', published 1990 under ISBN 9780679727279 and ISBN 0679727272.