num_pages: 241
description: The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic.  While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. It is first and foremost a compelling narrative about a civilized man and his child caught up in the tyranny of a police state.  Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.  In a folly of bureaucratic bungling and ineptitude, the government attempts to co-opt Krug's support in order to validate the new regime.
language: English
title: Bend Sinister
titlecomplete: Bend Sinister
characters: Adam Krug, Ember, Paduk, David Krug, Olga Krug
genres: Fiction, American, Literature, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Russia, Dystopia
ratings_count: 4512
publisher: Vintage