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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...

Американка Селин поступает в Гарвард. Ее жизнь круто меняется — и все вокруг требует от нее повзрослеть. Селин робко нащупывает дорогу в незнакомое. Ее ждут новые дисциплины, высокомерные преподаватели, пугающе умные студенты — и бесчисленное множество смыслов, которые она искренне не понимает, словно простодушный герой Достоевского. Главным испытанием для Селин становится любовь — нелепая любовь к таинственному венгру Ивану… Элиф Батуман — славист, специалист по русской литературе. Роман "Идиот" основан на реальных событиях, в нем описывается неповторимый юношеский опыт писательницы. Высоко оцененный критиками, роман был назван лучшей…

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. 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…

Selin ha diciotto anni e grandi aspettative, ma non è una diciottenne come tutti, o almeno così crede. Lei è la ragazza prodigio che ha letto sempre un libro più degli altri, e pensa di aver già fatto ogni esperienza possibile attraverso le pagine dei romanzi che ama. Ma al primo anno di università scoprirà che purtroppo le persone non sono personaggi e forse le certezze dei libri non sono poi così certe. Scoprirà che l'amore è più strano, banale eppure complesso di quanto si potrà mai leggere. Scoprirà di essere un'idiota, come tutti. Nel 1995, mentre il mondo impara a usare le email e a comunicare via internet, Selin è una matricola a…

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…

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...