The Idiot
by:
Elif Batuman (author)
It is September 1995. Selin, a Turkish-American college freshman from New Jersey, is about to embark on her first year at Harvard University, where she is determined to decipher the mysteries of language and to become a writer.In between studying psycholinguistics and the philosophy of language,...
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It is September 1995. Selin, a Turkish-American college freshman from New Jersey, is about to embark on her first year at Harvard University, where she is determined to decipher the mysteries of language and to become a writer.In between studying psycholinguistics and the philosophy of language, teaching ESL to a Costa Rican plumber, and befriending her classmate Svetlana
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Format: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B01LYHSGXE
Pages no: 480
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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