Professor Timofey Pnin late of Tsarist Russia is now precariously perched at the heart of an
American campus. Battling with American life and language Pnin must face great hazards in this
new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office the removal of his teeth and
the fitting of new ones the search for a suitable boarding house and the trials of taking the
wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master. Wry intelligent and
moving Pnin reveals the absurd and affecting story of one man in exile.
