The idiot

Elif Batuman

Original title: The Idiot

earliest edition we have, 1969 İletişim Yayınları, 2019 paperback 403 pages

Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling with her changing sense of self, first love and a daunting career prospect.

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Editions we hold

L'Idiote paperback · 2021 · OLIVIER · 528 pages · 9782823602166
La Idiota edition · 2019 · Penguin Random House · 480 pages · 9788439735854
Budala paperback · 2019 · İletişim Yayınları · 403 pages · 9789750527388
Idiot hardcover · 2019 · AST · 416 pages · 9785171124168
Idiot edition · 2018 · Penguin Publishing Group · 432 pages · 9780143111061
Die Idiotin paperback · 2018 · FISCHER Taschenbuch · 9783596198214
Idiot edition · 2017 · Penguin Random House · 9781910702697
Idiot edition · 2017 · Penguin Random House · 9781448181582
The idiot edition · 2017 · Penguin Press · 423 pages · 9781594205613
The idiot edition · 2017 · Random House Large Print · 630 pages · 9781524756222
Idiot edition · 2017 · Penguin Random House · 9781910702703
The Idiot paperback · 1969 · New American Library · 9780735223875

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