The Idiot

Cheaper in another edition — €2.50 at Label Emmaüs The Idiot · See that edition →

No prices right now — open the app to check again.

A New York Times Book Review Notable BookFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction An addictive, sprawling epic, I wolfed it down. -Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses You Easily the funniest book I've read this year. -GQA portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings. At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian...

Other editions

More by Elif Batuman

More by Elif Batuman