Batuman, Elif
The Idiot
- ISBN 13:
- 9780143111061
- author:
- Batuman, Elif
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Penguin Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 432
- Dimensions:
- 20.8 x 14 x 2.3 centimetres (0.2
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Women, Fiction & Literature
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Idiot is a masterful debut novel that explores the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Set in 1995, the story follows Selin, a young woman navigating her freshman year at Harvard, as she discovers the act of writing takes on new and increasingly mysterious meanings through her correspondence with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary.
Selin's summer in Europe, spent teaching English in a Hungarian countryside program and visiting Paris with her friend Svetlana, is a journey further inside herself, as she grapples with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love and the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.
With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, the author dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the threshold of adulthood, creating a portrait of the artist as a young woman that is both deeply personal and universally relatable.
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