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Middlesex
The astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and flowers in the body of a teenage girl.
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia- back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City and Prohibition, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly a hermaphrodite.
Spanning eight decades--and one unusually awkward adolescence- Jeffrey Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire.
In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them--along with Callie's failure to develop--leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.
The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia- back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City and Prohibition, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly a hermaphrodite.
Spanning eight decades--and one unusually awkward adolescence- Jeffrey Eugenides's long-awaited second novel is a grand, utterly original fable of crossed bloodlines, the intricacies of gender, and the deep, untidy promptings of desire.
529 pages, Paperback
First published September 4, 2002
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Jeffrey Eugenides
44 books10.7k followersJeffrey 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.
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March 6, 2018
이 책의 앞부분은 가브리엘 마르케즈의 백 년의 고독이 생각났다! 물론 그리스계 미국인의 미국판 백 년의 고독. 책의 앞부분은 특히 재밌게 읽었고 주인공의 할머니였던 데스데모나와 그녀의 남편 레프티의 이야기가 진짜 사실적이고 재미있다. 뒤로 갈수록 화자의 이야기에 집중된다. 화자는 홀든 콜필드처럼 빈정대는 말투가 특징적이고 책 자체는 유니크한 화자의 성장 과정을 잘 표현한 것 같다. 미국의 역사도 적당히 많이 나오기 때문에 역사를 잘 알면 굳!
December 26, 2020
미들섹스 MIDDLESEX
제프리 유제니디스
그리스계 미국 이민 가족사 소설
재미있고 경쾌한 이야기로 가득합니다.
굴직한 현대사 몇 개가 작품에 잘 녹아 있습니다. 성장소설이기도 한데 그 부분 -3부 가 좀 지루한 면이 없지않아 있습니다.
미들섹스는 중의적인 의미를 가집니다.
한편 드물게 표지가 거슬리는 책이네요.
제프리 유제니디스
그리스계 미국 이민 가족사 소설
재미있고 경쾌한 이야기로 가득합니다.
굴직한 현대사 몇 개가 작품에 잘 녹아 있습니다. 성장소설이기도 한데 그 부분 -3부 가 좀 지루한 면이 없지않아 있습니다.
미들섹스는 중의적인 의미를 가집니다.
한편 드물게 표지가 거슬리는 책이네요.
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