Modern Classic or Self-Indulgent Slog:Donna Tartt's The Secret History Book Marks

The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of the situation. * “How best to describe Donna Tartt’s enthralling first novel? Imagine the plot of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment crossed with the story of Euripides’ Bacchae set against the backdrop of […]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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Modern Classic or Self-Indulgent Slog:Donna Tartt's The Secret History Book Marks

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary.