{"product_id":"ada-or-ardor-1","title":"Ada","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis story of a man’s lifelong entanglement with his sister is not only a love story; it manages also to be a fairy tale, an epic, a philosophical treatise on the nature of time, a parody of the history of the novel, and an erotic catalogue. It concludes with an ingenious appendix by the author, written under the anagrammatic pseudonym Vivian Darkbloom. \u003ci\u003eAda\u003c\/i\u003e, published just after Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, is the supreme work of a virtuosic imagination at white heat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNabokov is the most allusive and linguistically playful writer in English since Joyce, and like \u003ci\u003ePale Fire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e, this novel abounds in delightful minor parodies and pastiches, countless multilingual puns and literary jokes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAda\u003c\/i\u003e is at its core a love story, the stuff that’s sold reams of pop music, and piles of books. Van, fourteen, falls in love with twelve-year-old Ada during a summer holiday. This premise is possibly the only aspect of \u003ci\u003eAda\u003c\/i\u003e common to numerous other novels. Van, an unreliable narrator if there ever was one, tells the story, while the narrative shuttles seamlessly from a first person to a third person - trust Nabokov the Enchanter to achieve that trick.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Everyman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54520498487640,"sku":"9781841594361","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781841594361_c854ad05-9dab-4d98-9a36-23308afc154e.jpg?v=1765701036","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ada-or-ardor-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}