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The Idiot : A Novel by Elif Batuman (2018, Trade Paperback)

Description: The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard where she signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and , almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. When the school year ends, Ivan goes to Budapest and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside. Her summer does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of college students, but rather is the beginning of a journey further inside of herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with a growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional sensitivity and mordant wit, Elif Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting.

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The Idiot : A Novel by Elif Batuman (2018, Trade Paperback)The Idiot : A Novel by Elif Batuman (2018, Trade Paperback)

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Type: Novel

Book Title: Idiot : a Novel

Number of Pages: 464 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2018

Item Height: 1 in

Topic: Psychological, Contemporary Women, Coming of Age, Literary

Genre: Fiction

Item Weight: 12.4 Oz

Author: Elif Batuman

Item Length: 8.2 in

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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