I Swore I'd Burn This Book

An intriguing and hilarious mystery about the ultimate literary scandal, in which the son of a world-famous author is faced with the dilemma of whether to publish his father’s final, unfinished work, which he had promised to destroy upon the his death.

Meet Dmitri Boris Godunov, son of Russian American literary giant Vladimir Godunov, whose rapturous, scandalous breakthrough novel secured its author’s place in the literary pantheon and continues to top banned book lists a half-century after publication. But when a forthcoming biography threatens to expose his father in monstrous ways, Dmitri must decide if he should publish the unfinished novel he had promised to destroy.

Loosely inspired by the true story of Vladimir Nabokov’s son, this twisty novel spans from New York to Russia to the Swiss Alps. Full of literary Easter eggs, I Swore I’d Burn This Book is both a feverish caper and a lyrical meditation on fathers and sons, our current times, and the mysteries of artistic creation.