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Books : Middlesex, Spanish EditionIn association with Amazon.com Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9788433970107 ISBN: 8433970100 Label: Editorial Anagrama Manufacturer: Editorial Anagrama Number Of Pages: 673 Publication Date: October 15, 2003 Publisher: Editorial Anagrama Studio: Editorial Anagrama Sales Rank: 1509027 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Cal es agregado cultural en la embajada de los Estados Unidos en Berlin, enamorado de una mujer pero temeroso de lo que pueda suceder cuando caen mascaras, velos y vestiduras, decide ya en la mitad de la vida, contar su historia, revelar su secreto. Porque Cal ha vivido como mujer y como hombre. Amazon.com Review: "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory. Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides's command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie's shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor: Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." … I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. When you get to the end of this splendorous book, when you suddenly realize that after hundreds of pages you have only a few more left to turn over, you'll experience a quick pang of regret knowing that your time with Cal is coming to a close, and you may even resist finishing it--putting it aside for an hour or two, or maybe overnight--just so that this wondrous, magical novel might never end. --Brad Thomas Parsons Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Hellenistic Forrest GumpIn case people think the comparison is meant as a compliment, it's not. This book had the same annoying way of coming up with coincidences that put people in the middle of "supposedly" historical occurrences. Just as I couldn't finish watching the movie, I couldn't finish reading this book. The characters and events were bland, and the magical realism didn't work. I couldn't understand why this book is so popular until I started reading the reviews and found out that it's an Oprah's ... Read More Rating:  - DIsappointingI purchased the book because of the Big O stamp of approval and found myself struggling to get through it.The history was somewhat interesting but the characters never seemed real to me, or maybe not compelling. I left it at the vacation rental, maybe someone else will enjoy it but I wont takes Oprah's recommendations so seriously now. Rating: - A Great Story but No BangWell written, interesting, and easy to read. The story is even good, its just that it never had any real climax to it. Sort of like an old western that kept promising something exciting but it never panned out. Rating:  - One of my favorites!Killer book! Starts with a kind of lengthy backstory in Greece, but I actually liked that part a lot. I recommend this to anyone interested in LGBT, or anyone who just wants an interesting and entertaining read. Rating: - A Wonderfuf ReadThis is a fantastic novel. A beatifully written, honest look at a slice of the world the is kept hidden from society. Browse for similar items by category:
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