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Either/Or
- Narrated by: Elif Batuman
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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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, 1996, 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. Why did Selin's elusive crush, Ivan, find her that job in the Hungarian countryside? What was up with all those other people in the Hungarian countryside? Why is Ivan's weird ex-girlfriend now trying to get in touch with Selin? 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? How does one live a life as interesting as a novel—a life worthy of becoming a novel—without becoming a crazy, abandoned woman oneself?
Guided by her literature syllabus and by her more worldly and confident peers, Selin reaches certain conclusions about the universal importance of parties, alcohol and sex and resolves to execute them in practice—no matter what the cost. Next on the list: international travel.
Unfolding with the propulsive logic and intensity of youth, Either/Or is a landmark novel by one of our most brilliant writers. Hilarious, revelatory and unforgettable, its gripping narrative will confront you with searching questions that persist long after the last moment.
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- rachel power
- 19-09-2022
smart & hilarious existentialist bildungsroman
i couldn’t love this book more, but much of my delight may hinge on the tone of the author’s performance, as reader. her deadpan delivery makes protagonist, selin’s, observations laugh out loud funny. underpinning the humour is an existentialist coming of age & a critique of 90s capitalism, patriarchy & ivy league culture.
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