Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Middlesex

Buch | Hardcover
544 Seiten
2002
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-6023-4 (ISBN)
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This is the tale of a gene that passes down through three generations and flowers in the teenage body of Callie. Thanks to this gene, she begins to realise she is part girl, part boy. What results is a fable of the intricacies of gender and the untidy promptings of desire.
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, Callie has inherited a rare genetic mutation. The biological trace of a guilty secret, this gene has followed her grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Detroit and has outlasted the glory days of the Motor City, the race riots of 1967, and the family's second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl, part boy. And even though the gene's epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun. 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. It marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both GRANTA and the NEW YORKER.

Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. He lives in Berlin.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.10.2002
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Gewicht 980 g
Themenwelt Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
Sonstiges Geschenkbücher
ISBN-10 0-7475-6023-4 / 0747560234
ISBN-13 978-0-7475-6023-4 / 9780747560234
Zustand Neuware
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