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008			170622t20182017nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780143111061 _q(Paper)
020			_a014311106X _q(Paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)992432877 _z(OCoLC)991336903
035			_a(coutts)cts21416576
040			_aBTCTA _beng _erda _cBTCTA _dYDX _dBDX _dBIB _dOCLCF _dMNG _dCaONFJC _dMiTN
043			_an-us---
050		4	_aPS3602 .A9237 _bB388 2018
100	1		_aBatuman, Elif, _d1977-
245	1	4	_aThe idiot / _cElif Batuman.
264		1	_aNew York, New York : _bPenguin Books, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2017.
300			_a423 pages ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
520			_aThe year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard where she signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student. 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. When the school year ends, Ivan goes to Budapest and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside. Her summer does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of college students, but rather is the beginning of 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.
650		0	_aWomen college students _vFiction.
650		0	_aIdentity (Psychology) _vFiction.
650		0	_aTurkish Americans _vFiction.
655		7	_aPsychological fiction. _2lcgft.
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