by Jeffrey Eugenides · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747561620
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«Middlesex» is the contemporary fiction novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (544 pages, in English).
Cal Stephanides was born a girl in Detroit in 1960 and discovers in adolescence that she is intersex. The novel spans three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, from Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit and the 1967 riots, exploring identity, genetic inheritance, and the American dream.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003, it is the second novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, author of «The Virgin Suicides».
Suitable for readers aged 14 and up; recommended for book clubs and fans of contemporary fiction.
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011). The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis.
