The Idiot: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION

Discover TikTok''s 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 doesn''t 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 story'' Observer
''Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour...refreshing and unique'' Sheila Heti
''Full of zingy one-liners'' Financial Times
''Hilarious, brilliant observations about writing, life and crushes'' Curtis Sittenfeld
''Delightful and slyly funny'' Red