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    This document provides a summary of the novel "The Idiot" by Elif Batuman. It describes the story as following a young woman named Selin who arrives at Harvard University in 1995 and begins corresponding via email with a Hungarian student named Ivan. Over the course of her freshman year, Selin experiences the confusion and exhilaration of her first love and realizes she has a calling to become a writer. The document highlights praise for the novel's emotional sensitivity, witty style, and ability to dramatize the uncertainties of life on the cusp of adulthood.

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    The Idiot Elif Batuman, A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Finalist for the

    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

    “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ

    “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you
    crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair

    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 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. Her prose is a rare and inimitable
    combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory
    itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in
    a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's
    affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which
    they entail.

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