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The Idiot

Hardcover • 2017 • English

The Idiot

By Elif Batuman

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About the book

"An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down." --Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses You "Easily the funniest book I've read this year." -- GQ A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Ser...Show more

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Narrative theme: Coming of age
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging

Book details

ISBN

9781594205613

Publisher

PENGUIN PRESS

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

The Idiot

Format

Hardcover

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