{"product_id":"9780099583172","title":"The Idiot : SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Batuman, Elif \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHungary\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 26 April 2018 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 432 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 198 x 28 | 300g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscover TikTok's new favourite book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - 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":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55491302424962,"sku":"9780099583172","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9780099583172.jpg?v=1753743541","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.live\/products\/9780099583172","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}