How I Won a Nobel Prize (Taranto Julius)(Pevná vazba)

An incisive, wickedly funny debut novel about a young graduate student who must follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to academics of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her marriage and conscience. Helen is one of the best minds of her generation. A graduate student on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity and thereby save the planet, Helen finds herself torn when her advisor's sex scandal is exposed. Should she give up on her work and her brilliant advisor? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university off the Connecticut coast, founded by a provocateur billionaire, that hosts the academics that other schools have thrown out? At the Institute, the disgraced and deplorable operate at the top of their fields with impunity and, indeed, every comfort. Helen reluctantly decides she must go and brings
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