Ergebnis für "The Idiot" in Coming of Age

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . . . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you...

An instant New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 “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.” —The New York Times...

El inmenso novelista ruso Fedor Dostoyevsky, autor de algunas de las novelas que mas profundamente exploran las intimidades del alma humana, en El Idiota presenta a un personaje inolvidable, Mishkin, un joven de la nobleza, sin experiencia, con gran fe en todos y una bondad innata, todo lo cual combinado hace creer a muchos que se trata de un debil mental.

The Vietnam War rages on, and Daddy signed up to fight. Now he's gone missing. Mama dumped me and my brother, Willie, at my grandmother's farm in Haley, Alabama, while she takes my little sister, Sunny, all over the state to compete in Little Miss beauty pageants. Me and Willie ain't the only ones staying here, either. Ida Mae takes care of a bushel of reject kids the state can't find a home for. Idiots. All of 'em. There's a serial killer on the loose targeting pretty little girls...ones that win Little Miss beauty pageants. Oh. And there's a monster in the cellar.

Kieran's love life didn't get off to a good start. He threw up after his first kiss; he was beaten up by the first girl to have a crush on him; and after a mix-up with his first love letter, he could only sit back and watch as the entire school mistook him for a brutal murderer. By the time the hormones kicked in, Kieran had all but given up on love, but the worst was yet to come.