Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was
acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as "a thrilling discovery ... a
reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog ... [with] a
Nabokovian delight in words and texts." J. is a smuggler living in
Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's
collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered
Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to
smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her
homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues
alone to a small village on the Black Sea. Letters from V. begin to
arrive, and as J. hunts the butterfly, he seeks a way to lure V.
back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story,
international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect
love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, wrote The
Tennessean, is "an amazing jewel of a story ... that winks with wit
[and] wears its astonishing craftsmanship lightly." "An
aesthetically blissful reading experience ... Nabokov's spirit,
alive and kind, has touched [Prieto] with its butterfly wings." --
Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice Literary Supplement
."..Nocturnal Butterflies is an impressive performance by a writer
whose gifts are clearly abundant." -- Richard Bernstein, The New
York Times "A beautiful, lavish, seedy, poetic, and magical
book.... Pure pleasure for the literary mind." -- Chris Kridler,
The Baltimore Sun
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