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The Idiot - Batuman, Elif

The Idiot

Author
Batuman, Elif
Price
NZ$16.00
Stock
1
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Description

Vintage, London, 2017. Small area of peeling at top of front / back cover, other minor secondhand wear to cover

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.

Format
Second hand Paperback
ISBN
9780099583172
Catalog
SKU
113247

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