THE IDIOT PB – ELIF BATUMAN

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… _______________- 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