EAN: 9780312427733

MIDDLESEX - JEFFREY EUGENIDES TASCHENBUCH

Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A dazzling triumph from the
bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides--the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down
through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.
I was born twice: first  as a baby girl  on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960 
and then again  as a teenage boy  in an emergency room near Petoskey  Michigan  in August of
l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent
driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal. 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 
witnessing its glory days as the Motor City  and the race riots of l967  before they move out
to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe  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 Callie into Cal  one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in
contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling  Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex is an exhilarating
reinvention of the American epic.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9780312427733

Produktinformationen zur 9780312427733