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The Idiot

Elif Batuman

1969403 pagesabout 6–9 hours
1969
first published
  • 1969New American LibraryISBN 9780735223875
  • 2017Penguin Press · 423 pages · ENGISBN 9781594205613
  • 2017Random House Large Print · 630 pages · ENGISBN 9781524756222
  • 2018Penguin Publishing Group · 432 pages · ENGISBN 9780143111061
  • 2019AST · 416 pagesISBN 9785171124168
  • 2019İletişim Yayınları · 403 pagesISBN 9789750527388
  • 2018FISCHER TaschenbuchISBN 9783596198214
  • VINTAGEISBN 9780099583172

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.

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