Elif Batuman's new novel The Idiot, published by Penguin Press, has been lauded as "a hefty, gorgeous, digressive slab of a book." It tells the story of Selin, the introverted, tall daughter of Turkish immigrants in her first year at Harvard. The...
Elif Batuman's new novel The Idiot, published by Penguin Press, has been lauded as "a hefty, gorgeous, digressive slab of a book." It tells the story of Selin, the introverted, tall daughter of Turkish immigrants in her first year at Harvard. The...