The Idiot Av Elif Batuman

<p><b>Discover TikTok''s new favourite book.</b><br><br>''<b>I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it'' Emma Cline, author of <i>The Girls</i></b><br><br> Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she <i>doesn''t </i>expect is:<br><br> - How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations<br> - An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante<br> - A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying<br> - Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood<br><br> 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...<br> _______________-<br><br><b><u>PRAISE FOR <i>THE IDIOT</i>:</u></b><br><b>''A moving, continent-hopping coming-of-age story'' <i>Observer</i></b><br> ''Elif Batuman s