'A great work of art radiant & rapturous affirming the power of love & imagination' The New York Times Book Review Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate in a 'dream-bright' America through eighty years of rapture as they cross continents are continually parted & reunited come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship & decades later put their extraordinary experiences into words Written in mischievous & magically flowing prose Nabokov's longest richest novel is a love story but also a fairy tale a historical parody an erotic satire an exploration of the passing of time & a supreme work of the imagination