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Item Details
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THE IDIOT
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| By: |
Elif Batuman |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1910702692 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781910702697 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2017 |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Description: |
'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it.' - Emma ClineSelin, 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. |
| Synopsis: |
'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it.' - Emma ClineSelin, 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, teaches ESL 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. The two conduct a hilarious relationship that culminates with Selin spending the summer teaching English in a Hungarian village and enduring a series of surprising excursions. Throughout her journeys, 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Jonathan Cape Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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