Transparent Things Graham R. Wood Five years ago

Five years ago

he has to turn a makeshift collection of inexperienced volunteers into a disciplined force capable of defeating one of the worlds most powerful professional armies

and rumours start to swell

vivid characters

Transparent Things Graham R. Wood Five years agoThe darkly comic Transparent Things, one of Nabokov's final books, traces the bleak life of Hugh Person through murder, madness, prison and trips to Switzerland. One of these was the last journey his father ever took; on another, having been sent to ingratiate himself with a distinguished novelist, he met his future wife. Nabokov's brilliant short novel sinks into the transparent things of the world that surround this one Person, to the silent