The speculation is that the novel contains even more sex than Lolita, the story of an elderly, literary pedophile and a manipulative young girl.
Dmitry Nabokov says only that the story concerns a neurologist who has great intellect, but is physically unappealing, and contemplates suicide after becoming oppressed by his much younger wife’s infidelity.
“Sex? Not much, that’s not the point,” he said.
Readers won’t have to wait entirely until Nov. 17. An extract is to be published today — in Playboy magazine.
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