A novel based on the life of Vladimir Nabokov's gay brother Sergey, from his wealth and position in pre-revolutionay Russia, Cambridge University, and to the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein, Sergey lives the life of an opium addict with a troubling love life in the shadow of his brilliant brother when he takes to to living in Berlin, he is eventully arrested and sent to a camp in 1945.
