num_pages: 169
description: Professor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master.Wry, intelligent and moving, Pnin reveals the absurd and affecting story of one man in exile.
language: English
title: Pnin
titlecomplete: Pnin
characters: Timofey Pnin, Joan Clements, Laurence Clements, Mrs. Thayer
genres: Classics, American, Russia, Humor, Novels, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 23738
awards: awardedAt: -378662400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin