{
  "type": "book",
  "site": {
    "name": "The Book Quiver",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "The Eye",
  "subtitle": null,
  "slug": "the-eye",
  "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/the-eye",
  "json": "https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/the-eye.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/the-eye.md",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Vladimir Nabokov",
      "slug": "vladimir-nabokov",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov"
    }
  ],
  "language": "en_GB",
  "original_title": "Соглядатай",
  "original_language": "ru",
  "first_published": "2013-05-02",
  "genres": [
    {
      "code": "FB",
      "heading": "Fiction: literary and general non-genre"
    }
  ],
  "series": [],
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin-classics/vladimir-nabokov/the-eye_978-01-4018-482-2.jpg?v=2026-04-23%2001%3A46%3A47",
  "description": "Smurov, a fussily self-conscious Russian tutor, shoots himself after a humiliating beating by his mistress' husband. Unsure whether his suicide has been successful or not, Smurov drifts around Berlin, observing his acquaintances, but finds he can discover very little about his own life from the opinions of his distracted, confused fellow-émigrés. Nabokov's shortest novel, The Eye is both a satirical detective story and a wonderfully layered exploration of identity, appearance and the loss of self in a world of word-play and confusion.",
  "editions": [
    {
      "title": "The Eye",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/the-eye/9780140184822",
      "publisher": "Penguin Classics",
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-01-4018-482-2",
      "pages": 96,
      "published": "2017-07-06",
      "language": "en_GB",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin-classics/vladimir-nabokov/the-eye_978-01-4018-482-2.jpg?v=2026-04-23%2001%3A46%3A47"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Eye",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/the-eye/9780141976440",
      "publisher": "Penguin",
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "ebook",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-01-4197-644-0",
      "pages": null,
      "published": "2013-05-02",
      "language": "en_GB",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin/vladimir-nabokov/the-eye_978-01-4197-644-0.jpg?v=2026-04-24%2004%3A16%3A17"
    },
    {
      "title": "The Eye",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/the-eye/9780679727231",
      "publisher": "Vintage",
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-06-7972-723-1",
      "pages": 128,
      "published": "1990-09-05",
      "language": "en_US",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage/vladimir-nabakov/the-eye_978-06-7972-723-1.jpg?v=2026-06-16%2015%3A33%3A53"
    }
  ],
  "other_languages": [
    {
      "title": "Der Späher",
      "language": "de_DE",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/de/der-spaher"
    },
    {
      "title": "El ojo",
      "language": "es_ES",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/es/el-ojo"
    },
    {
      "title": "Oko",
      "language": "pl_PL",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/pl/oko"
    },
    {
      "title": "O olho",
      "language": "pt_BR",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/vladimir-nabokov/pt/o-olho"
    }
  ],
  "characters": [],
  "chapters": []
}