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'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

• We started tracking this book on January 12, 2017.
• This book was £4.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 31 times in the past 2,854 days.
• The current price of this book is £3.99 last checked 2 hours ago.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is £2.99.
• The lowest price to date was £0.99 last reached on March 31, 2023.
• This book has been £0.99 2 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £9.99 last reached on May 9, 2017.
• This book has been £9.99 one time since we started tracking it.

• Literature & FictionLiterary FictionLiterary
• Literature & FictionGenre FictionComing of Age
• Literature & FictionLiterary FictionRomance

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