Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex (Unabridged) torrent

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Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Title: Middlesex
Format: 128 kbps MP3
Source: Converted from Audible

\"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.\" â?¦ 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.