The Idiot
- ISBN-10
- 0099583178
- ISBN-13
- 9780099583172
- Series
- The Idiot
- Category
- Identity (Psychology)
- Pages
- 432
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-04
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Author
- Elif Batuman
Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies linguistics and literature, and spends a lot of time thinking about what language - and languages - can and cannot do. Along the way she befriends Svetlana, a cosmopolitan Serb, and obsesses over Ivan, a mathematician from Hungary. Selin ponders profound questions about how culture and language shape who we are, how difficult it is to be a failed writer, and how baffling love is. At once clever and clueless, Batuman?s heroine shows us with perfect hilarity and soulful inquisitiveness just how messy it can be to forge a self.
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