I am a PhD student: I dance salsa at least 2 nights a week, talk history and books, and my personality is different in each of 3 languages I am fluent in. When I realised I'd barely read outside European and American literature, I spent a year working through Nobel, Booker and Goncourt lists — twenty-one books, thirteen countries. I I think this case describes my character well: I am determined, passionate and intense when I care about something



