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This is disgusting and I fully believe anyone who could give it five stars or read it in two days out of sheer interest have too much respect for craft and not enough respect for subject material. Nabakov must've realized, surely, that the only reason this was published was not out of sympathy to victims (himself potentially included), but out of delight at the material and outrage that would ensue.

when a woman loses her ability to pursue her dreams, at the hands of a man, a piece of me dies

Done with White Nights, The Honest Thief, and The Christmas Tree and a Wedding. The latter is the most abhorrent and self-indulgently misogynistic short story I've read in awhile--not because of it's subject matter but the passive phrases used to describe the poor young girl.
White Nights is an incredible tale. I've read it once before earlier this year, yet I think a second read makes it better.