![]() ![]() On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. Elif Batuman Author (2022) Either/Or Elif Batuman Author Elif Batuman Narrator (2022) The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Author Elif Batuman Author of introduction, etc. ![]() Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beautyand has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman." -Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "Easily the funniest book I've read this year." -GQ "Masterly funny debut novel. ![]()
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