- fiction, Identity (Psychology), Turkish Americans, Women college students
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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Prestige, classical in form, contemplative and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Elif Batuman
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group, VINTAGE, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9781448181582
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Elif Batuman (born 1977) is an American writer and academic.
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