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Middlesex: A Novel de Jeffrey Eugenides
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Middlesex: A Novel (2002 original; edició 2002)

de Jeffrey Eugenides

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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.
  1. 102
    Les correccions de Jonathan Franzen (sipthereader, sturlington)
  2. 81
    The Hotel New Hampshire de John Irving (Othemts)
    Othemts: Multi-generational eccentric families, entrepreneurship, incest, the average made epic - yep, these books have it all!
  3. 81
    Besar el vellut de Sarah Waters (_debbie_)
    _debbie_: Both are (at least partially) historical novels with strong themes of identity, coming of age, and going against the mainstream to stay true to what you feel is right. Although one is set in Victorian England and the other isn't, they both have that same feel of rich language and descriptive place.… (més)
  4. 93
    The Virgin Suicides de Jeffrey Eugenides (bookmomo)
    bookmomo: share the same exquisite sense of setting: boring, but not terrible suburban America, second half of last century.
  5. 82
    Una dona difícil de John Irving (readerbabe1984)
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    As Nature Made Him de John Colapinto (librorumamans, librorumamans)
    librorumamans: The connection of this book to Middlesex is Eugenides' character, Dr Luce, who appears to be modelled on Dr John Money of Johns Hopkins University. As Nature Made Him is a non-fiction account of Money's experimental (and unsuccessful) sex reassignment of David Reimer, whose botched infant circumcision left him genitally mutilated. Both books compellingly look at the complexity of gender identity.… (més)
  7. 30
    Anywhere but Here de Mona Simpson (ainsleytewce)
    ainsleytewce: Both are very American stories, about families in the 20th century, fighting wars, starting businesses, raising families, and both feature a teenage protagonist.
  8. 64
    La marca de l'home de Philip Roth (sarah-e)
    sarah-e: A character 'passes' in society - dealing with culture and identity.
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    The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit de Thomas J. Sugrue (jacr)
    jacr: A scholarly discussion of the decline of Detroit and its race riots. People who liked Eugenides's fictional account of Detroit might be interested in this historical version.
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    Cutting for Stone de Abraham Verghese (someproseandcons)
    someproseandcons: Both books are family and community sagas centered around secrets, and both books are carried by a strong and compelling voice.
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    Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City de Marjorie Housepian Dobkin (Usuari anònim)
  12. 10
    How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States de Joanne Meyerowitz (jacr)
  13. 10
    Les hores de Michael Cunningham (sturlington)
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    Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggle for the Soul of an American City de Luke Bergmann (paulkid)
    paulkid: Get a little history of Detroit from the stories of the people who lived there.
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    Sugarless de James Magruder (amberwitch)
    amberwitch: Similar topic and era
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    Els Fills de la mitjanit de Salman Rushdie (CGlanovsky)
    CGlanovsky: The destiny of an individual and a family bound up with that of a particular time and place.
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    Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy de Thomas Beatie (infiniteletters)
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    The Master Butchers Singing Club de Louise Erdrich (ainsleytewce)
    ainsleytewce: Both begin with immigrants who come to America at approximately the same time.
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    Intersex: A Perilous Difference de Morgan Holmes (boat-song)
    boat-song: Contains an amazing chapter on Eugenides and Middlesex, and for those interested in gender, a must read.
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    Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes de T. Cooper (susanbooks)

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  David.llib.cat | Jan 17, 2022 |
''Middlesex'' is a novel about roots and rootlessness. (The middle-sex, middle-ethnic, middle-American DNA twists are what move Cal to Berlin; the author now lives there too.) But the writing itself is also about mixing things up, grafting flights of descriptive fancy with hunks of conversational dialogue, pausing briefly to sketch passing characters or explain a bit of a bygone world.

''The Virgin Suicides'' is all of a piece, contained within the boundaries of one neighborhood; ''Middlesex'' -- a strange Scheherazade of a book -- is all in pieces, as all big family stories are, bursting the boundaries of logic.
 

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Eugenides, Jeffreyautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Bagnoli, KatiaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Cholodenko, MarcTraductionautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Gómez Ibáñez, BenitoTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Larsen, Dag HeyerdahlTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Lindenburg, MiekeTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Lindholm, Juhani(KÄÄnt.)autor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Nilsson, Hans-JacobTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Schönfeld, EikeÜbersetzerautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Tabori, KristofferNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Torrescasana, AlbertTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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Historical fact: people stopped being human in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, the workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joysticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

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