Middlesex

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The international bestseller
by the author of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
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'Expansive and radiantly generous a colossal act of curiosity,
of imagination and of love' New York Times Book Review
Books of the Year
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"I was born twice; first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day
in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room
near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of I974."
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations
of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village
overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessinn
its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of I967, before they move
out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point, Michigan.
To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty
family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns her into Cal, one of
the most audacious and wondrous... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The international bestseller
by the author of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
t
'Expansive and radiantly generous a colossal act of curiosity,
of imagination and of love' New York Times Book Review
Books of the Year
t
"I was born twice; first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day
in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room
near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of I974."
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations
of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village
overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessinn
its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of I967, before they move
out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point, Michigan.
To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty
family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns her into Cal, one of
the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical anl
thrilling, MIDDLESEX is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
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'A transatlantic epic Eugenides has taken the greatest mystery of
all - what are we, exactly, and where do we come from? - and craftec
a story that manages to be both illuminating and transcendent.
MIDDLESEX isn't just a respectable sophomore effort; it's a towering
achievement' Los Angeles Times
'Superb a warm and beautifully written novel that illuminates the ]
part of the human soul that even biology cannot reach' Sunday Times •<
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Eugenides combines a rigorous understanding of his sources with
a wry and sprightly voice that is entirely original. The result is a f,
masterful dissection and reassembling of the American Dream into a
shape you will not quite have seen anywhere before' Daily Telegraph >
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