Pnin Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature (1992) or whether sumo wrestlers cheat—the

or whether sumo wrestlers cheat—the book reveals how hidden incentives drive decisions in ways that often contradict common wisdom

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Pnin Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature (1992) or whether sumo wrestlers cheat—theProfessor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber room as office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master. Wry,