Its protagonist at one point fights a duel with Captain Tapper at Kalugano, and then recuperates in the Manhattan flat of Cordula de Prey.
Its protagonist at one point fights a duel with Captain Tapper at Kalugano, and then recuperates in the Manhattan flat of Cordula de Prey. It opens with a misquotation of Anna Karenina, our first sign that its world is not quite our own. Our world, called Terra, is written about by its protagonist, who first met his title love at Ardis as a young child. He later breaks the heart of her sister Lucette. For ten points, what is this late work of Vladimir Nabokov, dealing with the title character and her incestuous relationship with her brother Van Veen?
Its protagonist at one point fights a duel with Captain Tapper at Kalugano, and then recuperates in the Manhattan flat of Cordula de Prey.
{Ada} or Ardor: A Family Chronicle