The Idiot by Elif Batuman
'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018** Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect.You might also like
I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of itIt presented this almost moment-by-moment experience of life, in a way that I just felt Batuman had so much control. There’s so much wit and pleasure in her writing you feel very comfortable being in the world she’s created. -- Emma Cline, author of THE GIRLS
Elif Batuman is a writer whose byline creates a flutter of anticipation… If a dominant mode of her generation is knowing introspection, she writes with a bewildered outrospection that delights in the bathetic and the absurd… It’s a novel about being young and stupid that’s both wise and clever — and it’s a treat. * Evening Standard *
Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour in American letters. The pleasure she takes in observing the eccentricities of each of her characters makes for a really refreshing and unique bildungsroman; one more fascinated with what's going on around and outside the bewildered protagonist, than what s going on inside her. -- Sheila Heti, author of HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? and TICKNOR
Each paragraph is a small anthology of well-made observations… Batuman has a rich sense of the details of human attachment and lust. -- Dwight Garner * New York Times *
Beautifully written... a wry, funny coming-of-age story set at the dawn of email among a group of Harvard brainiacs too nerdy and self-involved to even think about sex, drugs and drinking. * Daily Mail *
Elif Batuman is a writer whose byline creates a flutter of anticipation… If a dominant mode of her generation is knowing introspection, she writes with a bewildered outrospection that delights in the bathetic and the absurd… It’s a novel about being young and stupid that’s both wise and clever — and it’s a treat. * Evening Standard *
Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour in American letters. The pleasure she takes in observing the eccentricities of each of her characters makes for a really refreshing and unique bildungsroman; one more fascinated with what's going on around and outside the bewildered protagonist, than what s going on inside her. -- Sheila Heti, author of HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? and TICKNOR
Each paragraph is a small anthology of well-made observations… Batuman has a rich sense of the details of human attachment and lust. -- Dwight Garner * New York Times *
Beautifully written... a wry, funny coming-of-age story set at the dawn of email among a group of Harvard brainiacs too nerdy and self-involved to even think about sex, drugs and drinking. * Daily Mail *
ELIF BATUMAN's first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099583172 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099583178 |
| Title | The Idiot |
| Author | Elif Batuman |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2018-04-26 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The London Magazine and Collyer Bristow Book of the Year Prize 2018 (UK), Long-listed for Womens Prize for Fiction 2018 (UK) |
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