Name: Middlesex (in French)
Price: 536.00 ZAR
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Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
ISBN: 9782020669610

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jeffrey Eugenides

Publisher

Seuil

Year

2004

Language

French

Pages

672

Format

Libro

ISBN13

9782020669610

Middlesex (in French)

Jeffrey Eugenides (Author) · Seuil · Libro

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Synopsis "Middlesex (in French)"

Dangling a silver spoon over her daughter-in-law's belly, Desdemona confidently predicts that her next grandchild will be a boy. But a rogue pair of chromosomes, descended from the slopes of Mount Olympus, will survive war, bootleggers and heartbreak to finally unite in Calliope Stephanides - a baby girl who upsets all the odds. Growing up in Michigan, Calliope is the bearer of a family secret that turns her into Cal, the narrator of this intersex, inter-generational epic.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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Jeffrey Eugenides (Detroit, 1960) studied at Brown and Stanford universities. He is the author of three acclaimed novels, all published by Anagrama: The Virgin Suicides, adapted into a film by Sofia Coppola: "Extraordinary novel, the Lisbon sisters are to the literature of the nineties what Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye was to the fifties" (Sergi Sánchez, El Mundo); Middlesex, which won the 2003 Pulitzer and was considered one of the best novels of recent decades: "Outstanding, very powerful" (Antonio Fontana, ABC); "Magnificent family saga, a dazzling novel" (Ignacio Martínez de Pisón); "Colossal" (David Guzmán, La Razón); and The Marriage Plot: "Fine and empathetic... Eugenides returns to claim his place among the master craftsmen of the (great) (American) novel" (Rubén Pujol, Rockdelux); "A luminous meditation on the distance between literature and life" (Eduardo Lago, El País).

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