The Idiot - Elif Batuman

Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey, arrives 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…

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Page Count: 432 pages