Laughter in the Dark

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.

• Despair
• Pnin
• Invitation to a Beheading
• The Gift
• Pale Fire
• King, Queen, Knave
• The Defense
• Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
• The Eye
• The Enchanter