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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, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” - Sloane Crosley, Vanity FairĪ portrait of the artist as a young woman. “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” - GQ Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction.Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.A New York Times Book Review Notable Book