Beyond Grimms' Fairy Tales

Greorg, the narrator in two previous volumes of My Yankee Family moves to Whangarei, New Zealand to start a new chapter of his life. There he is arrested and charged with sexual molestation of Lolita, a girl resembling the heroine of Nabokov's novel. The country is in the mids of controversy about Coddington Index, just published. Initially the press publishes condemning stories about him but, gradually it comes to his help. Greorg is released from jail, publishes a controversial book and is invited to be a key-note speaker at the major international congress. He speaks in a hall decorated with swastikas. Now, a celebrity he is shot in the chest and almost dies. Old love story is interwoven with discussion of feminist movement and "the end of man" in western civilization.