Transparent Things Author:Valdimir Nabokov Transparent Things is an astonishing act of imagination. In its absolute originality it could have been the work of only one man-a man we have long acknowledged to be as much wizard and magician as writer. Nabokov has "fashioned a Unicorn... that mythical beast, symbol of sex and spirituality, beautiful, dangerous, its horn pointing straight at... more » your heart.« less