Author: Sarah Weinman
In 1948, a mechanic named Frank La Salle kidnapped 11-year-old Sally Horner, posing to the outside world as her father while raping her repeatedly behind closed doors. Seven years later, Vladimir Nabokov published Lolita, a novel about a perverse professor “seduced” by a 12-year-old “nymphet.”
In “The Real Lolita”, Sarah Weinman juxtaposes the story of Horner’s tragic life and untimely death with the creation of one of the most infamous novels of all time, making the argument that one inspired the other. Weinman’s gripping work of true crime challenges a culture that privileges artistic genius over a child’s life.
> Shatabdi Sarker Poushi
