‘You think you know love until you read this book’: Why TikTok is obsessed with this 1848 Russian novella

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘White Nights’ has struck a chord with the social media generation.

“Pov: you think you know love until you read this book,” reads a viral TikTok post that’s referring not to a bestseller by Colleen Hoover or Sarah J. Maas, but instead a 150-year-old Russian novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky.