The Idiot
by:
Elif Batuman (author)
A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her...
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A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, b
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781594205613 (1594205612)
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
I kept trying to describe this book to people and failing, but it is exactly the sort of book that I love. My tastes remain ineffable to me, apparently. The narration is detailed, things happen but not too fast, it's funny, the narrator is blind to some things that we the readers can see but also pa...
I kept trying to describe this book to people and failing, but it is exactly the sort of book that I love. My tastes remain ineffable to me, apparently. The narration is detailed, things happen but not too fast, it's funny, the narrator is blind to some things that we the readers can see but also pa...
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