{"product_id":"9780099583172","title":"The Idiot","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscover TikTok's new favourite book. 'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard with no idea what to expect. What she doesn't expect is: - How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations - An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante - A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying - Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood But most of all, Selin does not expect to embark on a study of precisely how baffling love can be when you are trying to forge a self... _______________- PRAISE FOR THE IDIOT: 'A moving, continent-hopping coming-of-age story' Observer 'Elif Batuman surely has one of the best senses of humour...refreshing and unique' Sheila Heti 'Full of zingy one-liners' Financial Times 'Hilarious, brilliant observations about writing, life and crushes' Curtis Sittenfeld 'Delightful and slyly funny' Red\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elif Batuman","offers":[{"title":"432 pages \/ 26\/04\/2018 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57044488946039,"sku":"9780099583172","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780099583172_86584b0c-2473-47d7-9e32-86c72e64cf83.jpg?v=1779292916","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780099583172","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}