The Idiot
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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
- Penguin
- Released
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 014311106x
- ISBN13
- 9780143111061
- Category
- World prose, Autofiction, Contemporary Literary Fiction
- 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...