Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
von Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides--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."I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."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 glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
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Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
von Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides--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."I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."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 glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(3)
Rezension von MiriamIn den ersten Kapiteln musste ich mich ein bisschen überwinden, dranzubleiben und weiterzulesen. Aber dann wurde ich in einen Erzählsog um die Geschichte der Familie von Cal Stephanides gezogen, die drei Generationen umfasst. Romane, die sich über mehrere Generationen hinweg entwickeln, sind oft schwer zu lesen, weil man manchmal das Interesse an den einzelnen Figuren verliert oder einfach schier wegen der enormen Seitenanzahl. In Middlesex wurde das gut durch die teils anachronistische Erzählweise gelöst und so die Spannung aufrechterhalten.
Rezension von lynn luanaMiddlesex von Jeffrey Eugenides hat mir insgesamt gut gefallen, aber es hat mich nicht durchweg überzeugt. Die Themen rund um Identität und Familie sind spannend und tiefgründig, und die Verknüpfung von persönlicher Geschichte mit historischer und kultureller Geschichte fand ich interessant. Besonders der Einblick in die griechische Einwanderergeschichte und Calliope/Cals Identitätsfindung war gut gemacht. Allerdings gab es einige Längen, die für mich den Lesefluss etwas gestört haben. Die Handlung hätte stellenweise straffer sein können, und manche Passagen wirkten unnötig ausschweifend.
Rezension von lizzieWould rate it a twenty out of ten if possible.