From: Brian Boyd <b.boyd@auckland.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: {Sighting] Berlin after Nabokov
Date: 25 September 2015 11:13:30 am GMT+1
To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>

I meant to bring Gail Jones’s novel to the attention of Nablers, but have been too busy and distracted; thanks to Jansy for her unintended prompt.  To someone who loves Nabokov more and knows his work better than the snide reviewer below, it’s a fascinating read, especially in the early sections as the Nabokov enthusiasts prove their credentials to one another. The novel’s language, imagery and perceptions are rich in themselves and laden with deft homages to Nabokov, in a kind of See What the Sailor Has Hidden way. The text is saturated with A Guide to Berlin itself, with Speak, Memory, and much much more, and it’s a fine guide to modern Berlin in winter, and modern cosmopolitanism.

Brian Boyd

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