Elif Batuman: The Idiot: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION [2018] paperback ZRACE at a time when society

at a time when society viewed the role of women as that of mother and wife

and the audience repaid that love

They have sacrificed too much already

- interpreting the Equality Act 2010

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Elif Batuman: The Idiot: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION [2018] paperback ZRACE at a time when society'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018** 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