Thirteen strangely wrought, ingeniously crafted stories make up Nabokov\'s baker\'s dozen.
Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, they sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again..
In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims.
Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners.
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, with nowhere to escape to.
Thirteen strangely wrought, ingeniously crafted stories make up Nabokov\'s baker\'s dozen