The Idiot: An Extract
Elif Batuman’s The Idiot has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018. Read on for an extract from this fantastic novel. Selin,...
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, teaches ESL and spends a lot of time thinking about what language – and languages – can 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 writer, and how baffling love is.
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Elif Batuman’s The Idiot has been shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018. Read on for an extract from this fantastic novel. Selin,...
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