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Mar 14, 2017 · Elif Batuman. 3.66. 86,525 ratings14,275 reviews. 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.
The Idiot (2017) is the semi-autobiographical first novel by the Turkish American writer Elif Batuman. It is a bildungsroman , and concerns a college freshman, Selin, attending Harvard University in the 1990s.
Mar 14, 2017 · With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself.
Mar 18, 2017 · Elif Batuman has sung the praises of "long novels, pointless novels," and she puts her money where her mouth is with The Idiot, a tale of youthful confusion that can be both boring and...
With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself.
Feb 28, 2017 · Elif Batuman’s first novel, “The Idiot,” is in part about the unlikely and consuming crush that Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, develops on an older mathematics student from Hungary...
The Idiot Hardcover – 14 Mar. 2017. by Elif Batuman (Author) 3.7 4,717 ratings. See all formats and editions. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book. Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. "An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down.”
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Mar 14, 2017 · With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself.
