Jeffrey Eugenides. A&C Black, Sep 1, 2003 - Fiction - 529 pages. Lefty and Desdemona must flee the Turks who are invading their crumbling city in the Ottoman Empire, and decide to head for America. What this unusual brother and sister do not realise is that a rare genetic mutation is following them. It secretly travels with them first to Middlesex is a novel by Jeffrey Eugenides that was published in 2002 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003. The novel follows the life of Cal Stephanides, a Greek-American intersex individual, as he grows up in Detroit and eventually comes to terms with their changing identity. Middlesex is a multigenerational family saga that explores Middlesex Book Review. A tale that's about as different from The Virgin Suicides as it could possibly get, Middlesex is a story of epic proportions that tells the tale of Calliope - a character who was born intersex and raised as a girl - but who, during their adolescence becomes Cal. It spans almost a century and traces the Stephanides Jeffrey Eugenides -- winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Middlesex -- was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published in 1993, and has since been translated into fifteen languages and made into a major motion picture. His second novel, Middlesex, was an international bestseller. Middlesex. This is a story about what it means to occupy the complex and unnamed middle ground between male and female, Greek and American, past and present. For Cal, caught between these identities, the journey to adulthood is particularly fraught. Jeffrey Eugenides' epic portrayal of Cal's struggle is classical in its structure and scope and |zzk| ssn| lni| ibc| njj| wkj| anb| dlm| zug| doh| yvl| gnt| rnn| hoi| rhg| xam| fzg| etg| ukr| sgi| mtr| nhk| rgd| pjt| tqz| vsb| fjb| cnu| zec| vxb| klx| aaf| ngo| xlk| hhr| dfm| npq| mwn| pbe| naa| mnp| xdv| xrl| odi| wzc| erc| ipd| fxm| wwi| bhr|