Professor Timofey Pnin late of Tsarist Russia is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus Battling with American life & language Pnin must face great hazards in this new world the ruination of his beautiful lumber-room-as-office; the removal of his teeth & the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; & the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master Wry intelligent & moving Pnin reveals the absurd & affecting story of one man in exile