![]() ![]() To what do you attribute Vera Nabokov's secretiveness? Relatedly, how do you explain the couple's unwillingness to answer the question of how they first met? 4. 38)-had any impact on their relationship? 3. Do you think the Nabokovs' joint gift for synesthesia-"the ability to transfer the observations of one sense into the vocabulary of another" (p. Vladimir Nabokov? How did Vera Slonim's father shape the person she would become? Do you think it mattered that her mother was to a large extent invisible in her own childhood? 2. Do you think this tells you anything about the woman who would become Mrs. Schiff describes the Russia of Vera Slonim's childhood as one in which Jewish families obligatorily engaged in "what must have seemed like a colossal, rigged game of Simon Says" (p. ![]() ![]() In your support of this book, please feel free to copy and distribute this guide to best facilitate the program. ![]() Hopefully, it will help create a bond not only between the book and the reader, but also between the members of the group. This discussion guide will assist readers in exploring Vera. ![]()
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