Lit in Translation

Elif Batuman

Born 1977 · United States

In English
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Books on prize lists

  • Written in English

    Pulitzer 2018 · Finalist

    The Idiot

    The Idiot

    Elif Batuman · 40 when first published

    Novel · Coming of age, Love

    AI-generated summary:In 1995 Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, starts her first year at Harvard, where email is still a novelty, and begins writing to Ivan, an older Hungarian mathematics student from her Russian class.