The Gift

*The Gift* is Vladimir Nabokov’s last novel written in Russian, and it is considered one of his most significant works. The book tells the story of Fyodor Godunov-Cherdyntsev, a young Russian émigré and aspiring writer living in Berlin in the 1920s. The novel intertwines themes of creativity, emigration, love, and the search for one’s own path in literature. A specific highlight of the work is the fictional biography of the Russian writer Nikolai Chernyshevsky, which the protagonist pens.