Summary: "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." So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret, born on the slopes of Mount Olympus and passed on through three generations. Growing up in 70s Michigan, Calliope's special inheritance will turn her into Cal, the narrator of this intersex, inter-generational epic of immigrant life in 20th century America. Middlesex won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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Type
Ebog
Format
1 online resource
Sprog
engelsk
Emneord
Beskrivelse
Available in another form
ISBN
9780007528653
Målgruppe
voksenmaterialer
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Anmeldelse af: Middlesex af Jeffrey Eugenides
Det er en stor betagende græsk-amerikansk roman med mange ansigter. Først er det en familie- og slægtssaga om de græske bedsteforældre, som i virkeligheden var bror og søster. De flygtede fra Smyrna ...
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