THE IDIOT

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 n ew. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she ha s never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding w ith Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the ac t of wri...[Leer más]