Middlesex from Jeffrey Eugenides

Category: Bücher
Pages / Format: 596 S.
Edit year: 2003
Publishing House: Picador
Language: Englisch
ISBN: 044903007995

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.

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