Mia Levitin

Life’s great dilemma: Either/Or, by Elif Batuman, reviewed

Selim, a Harvard sophomore, weighs the pros and cons of an aesthetic life of pleasure vs an ethical life of duty

Elif Batuman. [Alamy]
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    Elif Batuman

    Cape, pp. 432, £16

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