Middlesex - BookWyrm.de

x, 529, [1] sivua ; 20 cm, 529 Seiten

Sprache: English

Am 2003 von Bloomsbury veröffentlicht.

ISBN:: 978-0-7475-6162-0
Goodreads:: 234706
Finna-ID:: keski.473351

"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 1974. . . 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 Pointe, 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 …

"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 1974. . . 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 Pointe, 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. --back cover

16 Auflagen

sifuCJC hat Middlesex von Jeffrey Eugenides besprochen

Wonderful stuff

4 Sterne

This is a great book. Good writing, engaging story, full characters. For some reason I couldn't get into it though, like it wasn't what I was looking for. But don't listen to me; it really is a wonderful book, and Eugenides is a wonderful writer.

DanyWho

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1. November 2013

Themen

Stephanides, Calliope, (fiktiivinen hahmo)
androgynia
seksuaalinen identiteetti
geenivirheet
perinnöllisyys
insesti
avioliitto sisarukset
identiteetti kriisit tytöt
pakolaisuus kreikkalaiset Vähä-Aasia 1920-luku
murrosikäiset tytöt
emigrantit kreikkalaiset Detroit
amerikankreikkalaiset
isovanhemmat
pikkukaupungit Grosse Pointe 1970-luku
kirjallisuuspalkinnot Pulitzer-palkinto