![]() ![]() ![]() In the classes they study a text called Nina in Siberia, in which a girl named Nina is mysteriously abandoned by her partner, also called Ivan. She also meets, but barely speaks to, a handsome Hungarian man named Ivan. Selin signs up for Russian language classes, where she meets and befriends a Yugoslavian woman, Svetlana. She is also culturally naive she is a virgin, does not drink, and does not understand dance music or parties. The classes she does go to, including linguistics and philosophy of language courses, fail to satisfy her. The early sections of the novel deal with Selin’s difficulties at Harvard, and her sense of herself as an outsider: she fails to make it into the university orchestra, and does not get first choice of the classes she wants to attend. She is moving out of her mother’s house, who is separated from Selin’s father, and the novel begins as Selin moves into a student dormitory with two other girls, Hannah and Angela. It is the early 1990s, and Selin Karadağ, an 18-year-old Turkish-American, is starting her first year as a student of linguistics at Harvard University. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Batuman, Elif. ![]()
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