A great work of art radiant and rapturous affirming the power of love and 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 uncles country estate in a dream bright America through eighty years of rapture as they cross continents are continually parted and reunited come to learn the strange truth about their singular relationship and decades later put their extraordinary experiences into words. Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose Nabokovs 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 and a supreme work of the imagination.