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The Idiot

Elif Batuman

665 pages

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About this book

Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling with her changing sense of self, first love and a daunting career prospect.

Themes
Who Am I?Melancholic & NostalgicThought-ProvokingHeartfelt & EmotionalNavigating immigrant identityFirst love's confusionIntellectual self-doubtCultural displacement
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