Elif Batuman: The Idiot: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION [2018] paperback ZRACE at a time when society

at a time when society viewed the role of women as that of mother and wife

They have sacrificed too much already

Desperate to leave Northern Ireland and the trials of her mother's unorthodox family - a loving yet eccentric band of misfits - behind

watching them pass out of the world

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Elif Batuman: The Idiot: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION [2018] paperback ZRACE at a time when society'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018** 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