Ada or ArdorNabokov's 'other' great love story, following an extraordinary relationship across decades and continents Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, 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 and reunited, come to learn the strange truth about their