num_pages: 529
description: 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.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 clasmate 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. It marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker .
language: English
title: Middlesex
titlecomplete: Middlesex
characters: Sourmelina Zizmo, James Zizmo, The Obscure Object, Desdemona Stephanides, Michael Antoniou, Calliope Stephanides, Chapter Eleven, Theodora Stephanides, Eleutherios Stephanides, Miltiades Stephanides
genres: Historical, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Queer, Novels, LGBT, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 631845
places: Michigan, Berlin, Izmir, Bursa, Detroit, Michigan
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Ambassador Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction, Unabridged, awardedAt: -62167190400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Transgender, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux