{"product_id":"the-idiot-9780099583172","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover TikTok''s new favourite book.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eI loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it'' Emma Cline, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she \u003ci\u003edoesn''t \u003c\/i\u003eexpect is:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations\u003cbr\u003e - An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante\u003cbr\u003e - A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying\u003cbr\u003e - Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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...\u003cbr\u003e _______________-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eTHE IDIOT\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''A moving, continent-hopping coming-of-age story'' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour...refreshing and unique'' Sheila Heti\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e''Full of zingy one-liners'' \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ''Hilarious, brilliant observations about writing, life and crushes'' Curtis Sittenfeld\u003cbr\u003e ''\u003cb\u003eDelightful and slyly funny'' \u003ci\u003eRed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it. \u003c\/b\u003eIt presented this \u003cb\u003ealmost moment-by-moment experience of life\u003c\/b\u003e, in a way that I just felt Batuman had so much control. \u003cb\u003eThere’s so much wit and pleasure in her writing\u003c\/b\u003e you feel very comfortable being in the world she’s created. -- Emma Cline, author of THE GIRLS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElif Batuman is a writer whose byline creates a flutter of anticipation\u003c\/b\u003e… If a dominant mode of her generation is knowing introspection, she\u003cb\u003e writes with a bewildered outrospection that delights in the bathetic and the absurd\u003c\/b\u003e… \u003cb\u003eIt’s a novel about being young and stupid that’s both wise and clever — and it’s a treat.\u003c\/b\u003e * Evening Standard *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour in American letters.\u003c\/b\u003e The pleasure she takes in observing the eccentricities of each of her characters makes for \u003cb\u003ea really refreshing and unique \u003ci\u003ebildungsroman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e; one more fascinated with what's going on around and outside the bewildered protagonist, than what s going on inside her. -- Sheila Heti, author of HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? and TICKNOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEach paragraph is a small anthology of well-made observations\u003c\/b\u003e…\u003cb\u003e Batuman has a rich sense of the details of human attachment and lust.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Dwight Garner * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeautifully written...\u003c\/b\u003e a \u003cb\u003ewry, funny coming-of-age story set at the dawn of email\u003c\/b\u003e among a group of Harvard brainiacs too nerdy and self-involved to even think about sex, drugs and drinking. * Daily Mail *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732314042711,"sku":"9780099583172","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099583172.jpg?v=1719996376","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-idiot-9780099583172","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}