King, Queen, Knave Charts then sets up a timber

then sets up a timber business

and the capital city with a conversational - and not necessarily honest - eye

Then on the last day of her three-week post-graduation European tour

a Kazakh chicken farmer turned something short of financial whiz kid

King, Queen, Knave Charts then sets up a timber'Vladimir Nabokov was a literary genius' David Lodge 'Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest', Nabokov wrote of King, Queen, Knave. Comic, sensual and cerebral, it dramatizes an Oedipal love triangle, a tragi comedy of husband, wife and lover, through Dreyer the rich businessman, his ripe lipped ad mercenary wife Martha, and their bespectacled nephew Franz. 'If a resolute Freudian manages to slip in' Nabokov darts a glance to the reader 'he