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Zusatztext Lefty and Desdemona must flee the Turks who are invading their crumblingcity in the Ottoman Empire! and decide to head for America. What this unusualbrother and sister do not realise is that a rare genetic mutation is followingthem. It secretly travels with them first to Detroit! and then to suburbia!through prohibition and the race riots of 1967. And in the spring of 1974!their granddaughter Calliope finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking! strawberry-blondeclassmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops betweenthem leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. Througheight decades - and one unusually awkward adolescence - Jeffrey Eugenides'long-awaited second novel is a breathtaking vision of the American Dreamand a modern fable of crossed bloodlines! immigration! the intricaciesof gender! and deep! untidy desire. Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides , was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux to great acclaim in 1993, and was adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola. Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, and was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Medicis, and was selected for Oprah's Book Club. It has sold more than four million copies. Klappentext Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides --the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl. "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 l974. . . 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, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. ...
