The Idiot Condition:Good France’s Prix Hemingway

France’s Prix Hemingway

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The Idiot Condition:Good France’s Prix HemingwayIt is September 1995. Selin, a Turkish American college freshman from New Jersey, is about to embark on her first year at Harvard University, where she is determined to decipher the mysteries of language and to become a writer. In between studying psycholinguistics and the philosophy of language, teaching ESL to a Costa Rican plumber, and befriending her classmate Svetlana (a Serbian refugee from Connecticut), Selin falls in love with a Hungarian