Ada or ardor: a family chronicle (Tapa blanda)

Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle -Nabokov's other great love story- offers even more sexual and imaginative surprises than Lolita. A romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van on his unclue's country estate, in a 'dream-bright' America, through eighty years of rapture, Nabokov's longest, richest, most ambitious novel'also becomes, as Brian Boyd says, a great many other things.