ekaterina
"Ekaterina you were, and you were not at all. You were from a land faraway, once upon a time and upon no time at all, where stories always begin, 'There was, and there was not at all...,' as if to confute truth or affirm invention, in celebration of the imagination's freedom to transcend the stubborn facts of 'reality': you were, and still are, Ekaterina: all of this is real, and not a word of it is true: you escaped the clutches of a sadist named Bolshakov (a real name) who could not separate truth from fiction, and you came to America."
- Ekaterina is a sustained and loving tribute to Lolita and Nabokovia (the faraway land from the first paragraph echoes Zembla, from whence references bloom everywhere). It's a delightful novel -- funny and erudite, and with warm and memorable characters, and full of the most charming ghosts in literature since Robertson Davies.
- Read excerpts from Ekaterina.
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