Middlesex

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The international bestseller
by the author of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
'Expansive and radiantly generous a colossal act of curiosity, of irnagination and of love' New York Times Book Review Books of the Year
"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 neai Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."
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So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generation of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessii^ its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, 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 o the hiost audacious and wondrous narrators in... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The international bestseller
by the author of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES
'Expansive and radiantly generous a colossal act of curiosity, of irnagination and of love' New York Times Book Review Books of the Year
"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 neai Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."
¦j-
So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generation of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessii^ its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of 1967, 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 o the hiost audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, MIDDLESEX is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
'A transatlantic epic Eugenides has taken the greatest mystery of all - what are we, exactly, and where do we come from? - and craftejl 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 Time^|
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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 masterful dissection and reassembling of the American Dream into a shape you will not quite have seen anywhere before' Daily Telegraph
ISBN 978-0-7475-6448-5
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