The Idiot

Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling with her changing sense of self, first love and a daunting career prospect.

Set in

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  Harvard University · United States

  Selin's freshman year, core setting of The Idiot
  ★ primary
• Budapest · Hungary

  Hungarian countryside where Selin teaches English in summer