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Middlesex.

By Jeffrey Eugenides

(55)

| Paperback | 9783499238109

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「わたしは2度生まれた。最初は1960年1月、空気の澄みきったデトロイトでのある日、女の赤ちゃんとして。2度目は1974年8月、ミシガンのペトスキー近くの救急処置室で十代の少年として…。わたしの出生証明書には、カリオペ・ヘレン・ステファニデスという名前が記載されている。しかし、最新の運転免許証には、ファーストネームとしてただカルと書かれている」

息をもつかせぬ物語はこうして始まる。これはカリオペ・ステファニデスとギリシア系アメリカ人であるステファニデス一族の3世代にわたる物語である。カリオペの祖父母は、オリュンポス山を見渡せる小アジアの小さContinue

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"In the eighteenth row my grandmother gave her critical opinion. 'It's lke the paintings in the museum,' she said. 'Just an excuse to show people with no clothes.'"
"All of a sudden American wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was bout ... (continue)

"In the eighteenth row my grandmother gave her critical opinion. 'It's lke the paintings in the museum,' she said. 'Just an excuse to show people with no clothes.'"
"All of a sudden American wasn't about hamburgers and hot rods anymore. It was about the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. It was bout something that had happened for two minutes four hundred years ago, instead of everything that had happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now!"
"Shakes your hand while he pisses in your pocket"
"The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the Bombyx mori, no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: 'The legs of the larvae have dgenerated, and the adults do not fly'"

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― Amusaur83 said on Aug 13, 2008 | Add your feedback

Original, interesting, intriguing, absorbing & though-provoking!!
One of the best reads of that year.
Loved it!!

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― Nini said on Nov 17, 2009 | Add your feedback

truly stunning

One of the most amazing books I've read - full of depth, unusual information and heart.

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― Gary said on Aug 19, 2009 | Add your feedback

Better than "The Virgin Suicides," although Eugenides's prose can occasionally be tiresome.

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― Coilette said on Jun 14, 2008 | Add your feedback

My thoughts

This beautifully written book is more than a story of a hermaphrodite. It is a rich family history interwoven with the history of Greek immigrants, as well as a history of life in the Detroit area from the early auto industry through the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. I liked all the characters ... (continue)

This beautifully written book is more than a story of a hermaphrodite. It is a rich family history interwoven with the history of Greek immigrants, as well as a history of life in the Detroit area from the early auto industry through the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. I liked all the characters from the grandparents Desdemona and Lefty through the narrator, Cal/Callie.

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― krin5292 said on Apr 21, 2008 | Add your feedback