{"product_id":"the-idiot-paperback","title":"The Idiot - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElif Batuman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book - Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction - Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Easily the funniest book I've read this year.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e will make you crave more books by Batuman.\" --\u003cb\u003eSloane Crosley, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. 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. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one the best books of the year by Refinery29 \u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eMashable One \u003ci\u003e- Elle Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e- The New York Times - \u003c\/i\u003eBookpage \u003ci\u003e- Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e- NPR - \u003c\/i\u003eBuzzfeed \u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElif Batuman\u003c\/b\u003e has been a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e since 2010. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a \u003ci\u003eParis Review\u003c\/i\u003e Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. \u003ci\u003eThe Idiot\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.11 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 13, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45085093560496,"sku":"9780143111061","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1121\/0060\/files\/VENnNnpMeTg3M2Y2cjEwZ2E3UlJ3UT09.webp?v=1777996844","url":"https:\/\/sidekicksptown.com\/products\/the-idiot-paperback","provider":"Sidekicks Ptown","version":"1.0","type":"link"}