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The Idiot

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First published: 2017
Pages: 393

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The author of the book "The Idiot" is Elif Batuman. It is a semi-autobiographical novel of his. Set in the 1990s, the story follows Celine, a freshman at Harvard, who begins a correspondence with Ivan, an older math student. The story explores the confusion and uncertainty caused by the advent of the internet and first love. This book consists of Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novels, and Literature genres.

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Elif Batuman

Elif Batuman is an American author, academic, and journalist. She is the author of three books: a memoir, The Possessed (2010), the novel The Idiot (2017), which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Either/Or (2022). Batuman is a staff writer for The New Yorker.