The Idiot: A Novel - Chapter 5 Summary & Analysis

Elif Batuman
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The Idiot: A Novel - Chapter 5 Summary & Analysis

Elif Batuman
This Study Guide consists of approximately 37 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Idiot.
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Summary

In the last weeks of the summer in Hungary, Selin joins the children she has taught at a summer camp, and helps them to rehearse a play, in English, to be performed to the other teaching groups. She is briefly plagued by a young boy named Fábián who has a crush on her, and seems to injure himself to be near her. During a final party in the village, Rózsa gives Selin some embroidery as a gift. She packs her things and heads to the airport, to fly to meet her family in Istanbul.

Selin meets with her mother and her four aunts in Istanbul, where they enjoy shopping trips and daily swims in the sea. Selin finds that her emotions have been held back by how busy she has been teaching and travelling, and suddenly begins to cry and feel...

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