![]() Parul Sehgal - New York Times Book Reviewīatuman has won a Paris Review Terry Southern Prize for humor, and her book is consistently hilarious. Long after I finished The Idiot, I looked at every lanky girl with her nose in a book on the subway and thought: Selin. And in the way of the best characters, Batuman's creations are not bound by the book that created them. hefty, gorgeous, digressive slab of a book.… Batuman is an energetic and charming writer…there is more oxygen, more life in this book, than in a shelf of its peers. ![]() It is like a beautiful neon sign made without a plug. The Idiot builds little narrative or emotional force. Small pleasures will have to sustain you oer the long haul of this novel. ![]()
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