Description
Title: Idiot, The
Author: BATUMAN ELIF
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 07/06/2018
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9780099583172
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 320