Pnin Author:Vladimir Nabokov Pnin is a Russian instructor at a college, and, due to his solitary existence and his failure to grasp the subtleties of English, he has become a running joke to most of his colleagues. He is fussy, awkward, and usually clueless. — The novel reads as episodes in Pnin's life: losing his lecture notes on a train he should never have been on; hi... more »s weekend with other Russian immigrants; the crushing love and hope he experiences when his ex-wife visits him; a party he gives for his colleagues.« less