具体描述
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 real: 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."
作者简介
杰弗里·尤金尼德斯,美国近年来相当活跃的知名作家。1960年,他出生于美国底特律,祖父母是从小亚细亚来的希腊移民。曾就读于布朗大学,1986年在斯坦福大学获得英语及创作专业硕士学位。1993年,尤金尼德斯发表了首部长篇小说《处女自杀》,书一上市就好评如潮,成为畅销书,获得了1993年怀汀奖,以及同年美国艺术协会年度风云书,并由大导演科波拉之女索菲娅·科波拉搬上银幕。
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