Review: Elif Batuman’s ‘The Idiot’ Sets a Romantic Crush on Simmer - The New York Times
Dwight Garner
Elif Batuman’s first novel, “The Idiot,” is in part about the unlikely and consuming crush that Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, develops on an older mathematics student from Hungary during her freshman year at Harvard.
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