The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov, by Paul Russell
Truth: Vladimir Nabokov (Russian novelist, Lolita) had a younger gay brother, whom he and his family were deeply ashamed of. Sergey was a talented artist, a passionate activist, and he died in a Nazi concentration camp.
This is his story, and Paul Russell deserves to win many, many awards for it.
A stuttering childhood in the shadow of his brilliant older brother, Sergey was a different kind of brilliant. He was devoted to classical dance, and many of his lovers were members the Russian Ballet corps. His life in Paris intermingled with the brightest stars of the Modernist Movement— as well as the habitueés of the opium den. To his ultimate end in Berlin, dying in 1945— Paul writes an extraordinary novel based on the life of an exceptional person.
Narrated by Ken Kliban, who has narrated e.e. cummings and Dostoevsky so beautifully.
-Aretha Bright
