A review by coco_lolo
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

4.0

What a strange, funny book. Timofey Pnin is one of the oddest characters I've read about in a while, and maybe that's what made him so endearing and pitiful. I'd only read short stories by Nabokov before this, so I didn't have much to go on; Pnin was such a smart novel, though, that I'm curious about his other works. I liked how each of the seven chapters focused on a different point in Pnin's life and on his relationships with other people. The choice in narration was funny and kept the story from becoming stuffy, and it wasn't until toward the end where things began clicking into place as to the narrator's identity.