The Idiot

The ingenious, hilarious new novel from award-winning writer Elif Batuman - 'It's a novel about being young and stupid that's both wise and clever - and it's a treat' Evening Standard

Informationen zum Autor Elif Batuman Klappentext Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them . The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Zusammenfassung Discover TikTok's new favourite book. ' I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls 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... _- PRAISE FOR THE IDIOT : 'A moving, continent-hopping coming-of-age story' Observer 'Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour...refreshing and unique' Sheila Heti 'Full of zingy one-liners' Financial Times 'Hilarious, brilliant observations about writing, life and crushes' Curtis Sittenfeld ' Delightful and slyly funny' Red

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The ingenious, hilarious new novel from award-winning writer Elif Batuman - 'It's a novel about being young and stupid that's both wise and clever and it's a treat' Evening Standard

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Elif Batuman

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Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.

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Discover TikTok's new favourite book.

'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls

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...
  _-

  PRAISE FOR THE IDIOT:
  'A moving, continent-hopping coming-of-age story' Observer
  'Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour...refreshing and unique' Sheila Heti
  'Full of zingy one-liners' Financial Times
  'Hilarious, brilliant observations about writing, life and crushes' Curtis Sittenfeld
  'Delightful and slyly funny' Red