King, Queen, Knave

<p><b>'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge</b> <p>'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of <i>King, </i> <i>Queen, Knave.</i> Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi-comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe-lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' - Nabokov darts a glance to the reader - 'he or she should be warned that a number of cruel traps have been set here and there...</p>