Despair. Nabokov V.V.

with the outbreak of World War I, having German roots, German was interned and since 1920 lived in Berlin, in a cozy apartment with a lovely and loving wife Lida, a helpful maid elza, a balcony on the sunny side and central heating. The only disorder is the chocolate business that the hero took up does not bring expected income. Recently, things are completely bad at all. Once, while on a business visit in Prague, Herman meets the homeless tramp of Felix, like two drops of water similar to him. In Herman’s head, an ideal plan matures: to kill Felix and, having dressed him in his clothes, thus staging suicide. Lida will receive insurance and will come with this money to a hero hiding in another country. But from the very first steps, everything begins to go not according to plan.