Middlesex - Softcover

Eugenides Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 880458436X ISBN 13: 9788804584360

Publisher: Mondadori, 2009

Synopsis

'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 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 Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, "Middlesex" is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

About this title

From the Publisher:

This is the international bestseller by the widely-acclaimed author of The Virgin Suicides. Middlesex is also the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This book was raved about in reviews worldwide on its release and now is in paperback. You won't read a more satisfying and epic novel than Middlesex. Sprawling across eight decades and one unusually awkward adolescence Jeffrey Eugenides long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire.

About the Author:

Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of The Virgin Suicides. He lives in Berlin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mondadori
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 880458436X
• ISBN 13: 9788804584360
• Binding: Paperback