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Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is: - How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations; - An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante; - A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying; - Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. But most of all, Selin does not expect to embark on a study of precisely how baffling love can be when you are trying to forge a self...
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The Idiot, Elif Batuman
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- Released
- 2018
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- Title
- The Idiot
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Elif Batuman
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0099583178
- ISBN13
- 9780099583172
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Romance, Travel, Humor, Love, Contemporary Fiction, Friendship, Contemporary Romance, USA, Relationships, American Literature, Europe, Linguistics, Coming Of Age, Young Adult Romance, Studying, University, College, First love, Turkey, Hungary, University Students, University Novel
- First published
- 2017
- Original title
- The Idiot
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is: - How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations; - An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante; - A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying; - Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. But most of all, Selin does not expect to embark on a study of precisely how baffling love can be when you are trying to forge a self...