The Idiot [electronic resource]
Batuman, Elif2017
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'A moving, continent-hopping coming-of-age story' Observer **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018** Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood. She studies linguistics and literature, and spends a lot of time thinking about what language – and languages – can and cannot do. Along the way, she befriends Svetlana, a cosmopolitan Serb, and obsesses over Ivan, a mathematician from Hungary. Selin ponders profound questions about how culture and language shape who we are, how difficult it is to be a failed writer, and how baffling love is. At once clever and clueless, Batuman's heroine shows us with perfect hilarity and soulful inquisitiveness just how messy it can be to forge a self. 'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls
Main title:
The Idiot [electronic resource] / Elif Batuman
Author:
Batuman, Elif, Author
Work:
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
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.
Awards:
Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Columbia University)
ISBN:
9781448181582
Language:
English
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BRN:
359068