Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic. Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
I didn't know what most of the words meant but after the third or fourth time I could recite the list by heart. ... I didn't feel famous, however. In fact, behind the curtain, I no longer felt as if I ... Dr. Craig wasn't convinced.
Harvard could n't match Troy as a setting, and in Segal's whole novel only one person died. (Maybe this was another sign of the hormones manifesting themselves silently inside me. For while my classmates found The Iliad too bloody for ...
Middlesex
Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.
Men han lavede bare sjov. Hvad Ed selv angik, holdt han sit hår velsoigneret. Den smule han havde, var redt lige bagud. Han havde et brutalt, stridbart ansigt. Hans næsebor var mørke og glubske mens han arbejdede rundt om mig og pumpede ...
Mots-clés : famille ; identité ; trouble du genre ; génétique.
" So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its ...
Weit gesponnene Familiensaga, die in einem griechischen Bergdorf ihren Anfang nimmt, als zwei Geschwister vor den Türken fliehen, und sich Generationen später in den Vereinigten Staaten dramatisch zuspitzt.
' So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition era Detroit, witnessing its ...