The Idiot
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About this book
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.
Reader Profile
3.6/5 · 114150 readers · 419 pages · ≈ 7 h 46 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The Idiot?
About ≈ 7 h 46 m — 419 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Idiot?
419 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Idiot?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is The Idiot in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote The Idiot?
Elif Batuman.