# Despair

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- Book: [Despair](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov/despair) ([Despair.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov/despair.md))
- Authors: [Vladimir Nabakov](https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabakov)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-343-1
- Pages: 240
- Published: 1989-05-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime--his own murder. • “A beautiful mystery plot, not to be revealed.” – Newsweek...