A New York Times Book Review Notable BookFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction"An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down."-Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses...

Elif Batuman has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 2010. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation...

One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED-ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!-TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICSNo one who read Elif Batuman's first article (in the journal n+1) will ever...

An instant New York Times bestseller!"Batuman has a gift for making the universe seem, somehow, like the benevolent and witty literary seminar you wish it were . . .This novel wins you over in a million micro-observations." -The New York...

*Chosen as a 2022 literary highlight by Guardian, Financial Times, Daily Mail and Esquire*SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY: the only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996, and...

SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER FAMILY:The only one who was born in America and got to go to Harvard. Now it's her second year, 1996, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of...

"IDIOT THE MREXP" ist leider kein bekanntes Buch von Elif Batuman. Es könnte sein, dass der Titel falsch geschrieben wurde. Ein bekanntes Werk von ihr ist "The Idiot", welches die Geschichte einer jungen Frau namens Selin erzählt, die in...