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Middlesex

By Jeffrey Eugenides, Benito Gómez Ibáñez (Translator)

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| Paperback | 9788433970107

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Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family -- blesseContinue

Spanning eight decades and chronicling the wild ride of a Greek-American family through the vicissitudes of the twentieth century, Jeffrey Eugenides’ witty, exuberant novel on one level tells a traditional story about three generations of a fantastic, absurd, lovable immigrant family -- blessed and cursed with generous doses of tragedy and high comedy.

But there’s a provocative twist. Cal, the narrator -- also Callie -- is a hermaphrodite. And the explanation for this takes us spooling back in time, through a breathtaking review of the twentieth century, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie’s grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set our narrator’s life in motion.

Middlesex is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire. It’s a brilliant exploration of divided people, divided families, divided cities and nations -- the connected halves that make up ourselves and our world. Justly acclaimed when it was released in Fall 2002, it announces the arrival of a major writer for our times.

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  • 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides

    This book has received rave reviews, been an international bestseller and won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. And no wonder - it is BRILLIANT. Middlesex is wholly original and unlike anything I've ever read before. Just look at the opening line: ... (read full critics)

    readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

  • He's not like other girls

    Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides Bloomsbury £16.99, pp544 Jeffrey Eugenides has spent nine years writing Middlesex, a comic epic concerning the transmission of a gene from a village in Asia Minor through twentieth-century Detroit to contemporary Berlin ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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    Un romanzo classico dove genética, mitologia ed epopea americana si riuniscono ... Un bel romanzone di quelli che sei contento di leggere sprofondato nel sofà

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