\'He is the greatest German writer of our time\' Vladimir NabakovAfter an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents.. \'He is the greatest German writer of our time\' Vladimir NabakovAfter an embarrassing sexual misadventure with a servant girl, sixteen-year-old Karl Rossman is banished to America by his parents.