by Jeffrey Eugenides · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020669610
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«Middlesex» is Jeffrey Eugenides's novel in the 2004 Points paperback edition, 672 pages, in French.
Calíope Stephanides grows up in the United States in a family of Greek origin. At fourteen she discovers she has two sexes and begins to live as a boy; she then delves into the past of her grandmother Desdemona and a family story between Greece and the United States. The novel explores identity, gender, family and heritage.
Work originally published in 2002, winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. This edition includes the translation by Marc Cholodenko and belongs to the Points collection (no. 1238).
Recommended for reading clubs and for readers of contemporary fiction interested in identity, family history and immigrant experience.
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.
