- education, coming of age, love, personal development
Selin returns to Harvard for her sophomore year, spends lots of time thinking about Ivan, then moves on.
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Contemporary, classical in form, contemplative and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Elif Batuman
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 360
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Penguin Random House, Penguin Publishing Group
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9781529191363
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First sentence
“It was dark when I got to Cambridge.”
About Elif Batuman · 1977
Elif Batuman (born 1977) is an American writer and academic.
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