The Idiot
The ingenious, funny novel, shortlisted for the Women's Prize
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- 37,99 zł
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- 37,99 zł
Publisher Description
Discover TikTok's new favourite book.
'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls
Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is:
- How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations
- An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante
- A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying
- Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood
But most of all, Selin does not expect to embark on a study of precisely how baffling love can be when you are trying to forge a self...
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PRAISE FOR THE IDIOT:
'A moving, continent-hopping coming-of-age story' Observer
'Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour...refreshing and unique' Sheila Heti
'Full of zingy one-liners' Financial Times
'Hilarious, brilliant observations about writing, life and crushes' Curtis Sittenfeld
'Delightful and slyly funny' Red
Customer Reviews
It occurred to me that it might take more than a year—maybe as many as 7 years—to learn to feel 19.
I was repeatedly thinking through the story how much I am acknowledging myself through Selin insensibly getting closer to the biggest tragedy and the biggest adventure of the womanhood: meeting face to face with herself, a girl in her almost twenties.
Ebook - perfect. The plot - not so much.
A bit boring for me. The ending just disappointing.