The Idiot

Elif Batuman

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.

Subjects

  • bildungsromans
  • college students
  • coming of age
  • contemporary women
  • fiction
  • fiction / coming of age
  • fiction, coming of age
  • fiction / contemporary women
  • fiction / literary
  • fiction, psychological
  • fiction, women
  • identity (psychology)
  • literary
  • new york times reviewed
  • turkish americans
  • women college students