The ingenious, hilarious new novel from award-winning writer Elif Batuman - 'It's a novel about being young and stupid that's both wise and clever - and it's a treat' Evening Standard
Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed- Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, and a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for Humor, she also holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.
I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it.
It presented this almost moment-by-moment experience of
life, in a way that I just felt Batuman had so much control.
There's so much wit and pleasure in her writing you feel
very comfortable being in the world she's created. -- Emma Cline,
author of THE GIRLS
Elif Batuman is a writer whose byline creates a flutter of
anticipation... If a dominant mode of her generation is knowing
introspection, she writes with a bewildered outrospection that
delights in the bathetic and the absurd... It's a novel
about being young and stupid that's both wise and clever - and it's
a treat. * Evening Standard *
Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour in
American letters. The pleasure she takes in observing the
eccentricities of each of her characters makes for a really
refreshing and unique bildungsroman; one more fascinated with
what's going on around and outside the bewildered protagonist, than
what s going on inside her. -- Sheila Heti, author of HOW SHOULD A
PERSON BE? and TICKNOR
Each paragraph is a small anthology of well-made
observations... Batuman has a rich sense of the details of
human attachment and lust. -- Dwight Garner * New York Times
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Beautifully written... a wry, funny coming-of-age story
set at the dawn of email among a group of Harvard brainiacs too
nerdy and self-involved to even think about sex, drugs and
drinking. * Daily Mail *
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