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Either/Or
Either/Or
paperback
Published:
25 May, 2023
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Description
The new novel from the bestselling author of The Idiot follows one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood.
'Elif Batuman is the queen of the campus novel... Enchanting' Sunday Times
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, and Selin knows she has to make it count. The first order of business: to figure out the meaning of everything that happened over the summer...
On the plus side, her life feels like the plot of an exciting novel. On the other hand, why do so many novels have crazy, abandoned women in them? And how does one live a life as interesting as a novel - a life worthy of becoming a novel - without turning into a crazy, abandoned woman oneself?
'Stupendous... Hilarious... Batuman is a genius' Vogue
'This novel wins you over in a million micro-observations' New York Times
'Searingly smart' Evening Standard
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781529115932 |
| ISBN10 | 1529115930 |
| Number Of Pages | 368 |
| Item Weight | 260 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 23 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
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 *
Such an enchanting writer. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * Sunday Times *
Either/Or is both an entertaining campus novel and an engaging disquisition on the very nature and purpose of novels. * Financial Times, *Summer Reads of 2022* *
Stupendous . . . hilarious... Batuman is a genius, rendering human folly at its most colorful and borderline surreal -- Lauren Mechling * Vogue *
The central pleasure of reading Elif Batuman's ferociously intelligent fiction...[is] the thrill of encountering things you already half-knew, rendered in language with lyrical precision... hopefully, there will be a third installment of the adventures of Elif Batuman's brilliantly modern picaro. * Times Literary Supplement *
Wonderfully idiosyncratic... Charming -- Alex Clark * Guardian *
Delightful... Batuman has a formidable deadpan wit... Selin is not only an astute observer but displays a touching capacity for awe. * Spectator *
A charming, mordantly funny follow-up to her first novel... triumphal. * Daily Mail *
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Author's Bio
ELIF BATUMAN's first novel, The Idiot, was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2010 and holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.