New Nabokov gets November release

[Dave Monroe]

Page last updated at 17:00 GMT, Friday, 17 April 2009 18:00 UK
New Nabokov gets November release


Vladimir Nabokov's final novel is to be published by Penguin later this year.

Nabokov wrote The Original of Laura on 138 index cards, each of which
will be reproduced with a transcript of their text on the facing page.

The Russian author left instructions that the unfinished work be
destroyed after his death. He died in 1977, but his son took the
decision to publish last year.

Penguin paid a six figure sum for the new work and continued back catalogue

rights and will publish on 3 November.

The book will be published simultaneously in the UK and the United States....

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