On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends.
She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beautyand has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting.
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A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.The year is 1995, and email is new. A portrait of the artist as a young woman. Batuman has written a romantic comedy about the romance of language, a metacomic novel of ideas, and an adventure in grammar.
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