Elif Batuman
Praise for Either/Or
Our funniest overthinker - and the queen of the campus novel... Selin is a droll and disarming narrator, and takes her place as one of the finest hapless scholars in the literary canon.
Johanna Thomas-Corr, Sunday Times
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.
Dwight Garner, The New York Times
A richly suggestive and amusing book.
Jonathan Derbyshire, Financial Times
Our funniest overthinker - and the queen of the campus novel... Selin is a droll and disarming narrator, and takes her place as one of the finest hapless scholars in the literary canon.
Johanna Thomas-Corr, Sunday Times
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.
Dwight Garner, The New York Times
A richly suggestive and amusing book.
Jonathan Derbyshire, Financial Times
Our funniest overthinker - and the queen of the campus novel... Selin is a droll and disarming narrator, and takes her place as one of the finest hapless scholars in the literary canon.
Johanna Thomas-Corr, Sunday Times
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.
Dwight Garner, The New York Times
A richly suggestive and amusing book.
Jonathan Derbyshire, Financial Times
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9 absorbing novels with an academic setting
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