The idiot
Book |
Penguin Press,
New York :
2017.
- 3 of 3 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
- 1 current hold with 3 total copies.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fleming - Beamsville | FIC Batum | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Niagara-on-the-Lake | FIC BATUM | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
| Thorold | FIC BATUM | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
"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. 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. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood."--Provided by publisher.
Details
- ISBN: 9781594205613
- ISBN: 1594205612
- Physical Description: 423 pagesprint
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
- General Note: LSC 36.00