The Idiot

Discover TikToks 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 doesnt 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...
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PRAISE FOR THE IDIOT:
A moving, continent-hopping coming-of-age storyObserver
Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour...refreshing and unique Sheila Heti
Full of zingy one-linersFinancial Times
Hilarious, brilliant observations about writing, life and crushes Curtis Sittenfeld
Delightful and slyly funnyRed