by Jeffrey Eugenides · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747564485
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«Middlesex» is the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides, published by Penguin Books in paperback (544 pages, in English).
Calíope Stephanides, raised as a girl in Detroit, discovers in adolescence a genetic mutation that leads her to live as Cal. Her story intertwines with that of her Greek grandparents, from their flight from Asia Minor to industrial America, in a family saga about identity, gender, and inherited secrets.
The novel received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003.
For readers of literary fiction, family sagas, and stories that address identity and gender.
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.
