num_pages: 403
description: The Gift is the last of the novels Nabokov wrote in his native Russian and the crowning achievement of that period in his literary career.  It is also his ode to Russian literature, evoking the works of Pushkin, Gogol, and others in the course of its narrative:  the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, an impoverished émigré poet living in Berlin, who dreams of the book he will someday write--a book very much like The Gift itself.
language: English
title: The Gift
titlecomplete: The Gift
characters: Elizaveta Pavlovna, Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, Zina Mertz
genres: 20th Century, Germany, American, Russia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 4139
places: Berlin
publisher: Penguin Books