The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece

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The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous MasterpieceThe Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokovs masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness. David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon Vladimir Nabokovs Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real life case:

A secret son

A sweeping yet intimate look at love

As the novel opens

An empire has collapsed from boredom and loss of faith in itself

and maybe the last

and geese singing in the winter sky

But Jinshi has other plans for the erstwhile apothecary

Using her wits to break a "curse" afflicting the imperial heirs

“No one does life and love better

Payne provides searing vignettes culled from Malcolm’s Depression-era youth

will make his new home

the cast of characters