'I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it' Emma Cline, author of The Girls

What she doesn't expect is:

- How much time she will spend thinking about language and its limitations

- An opinionated cosmopolitan Serb named Svetlana, who will become her confidante

- A mathematician from Hungary called Ivan, whom she will obsess over when she is supposed to be studying

- Feeling dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood

But most of all, Selin does not expect to embark on a study of precisely how baffling love can be when you are trying to forge a self...