The heroines of Nina Berberova's novel “Cape of Storms” are three sisters who were taken as girls from Russia to France. The eldest, Dasha, is kind to everyone and lives in harmony with the world; the middle one, Sonya, is smart and sarcastic, she is sure: there is no harmony and cannot be, and no one has needed beauty for a long time; the youngest, Zay, is simply living a cheerful youth... Far from their homeland, without family traditions, without faith, they are trying to arrange their life in Paris on the eve of World War II. The book also includes an essay “Nabokov and his “Lolita”,” published “on hot traces", almost immediately after the publication of the scandalous novel.