JEFFREY EUGENIDES

The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives. Twenty years on, their enigmatic personalities are embalmed in the memories of the boys who worshipped them and who now recall their shared adolescence: the brassiere draped over a crucifix belonging to th...

Cal Stephanides es agregado cultural en la embajada de los Estados Unidos en Berlín. Enamorado de una mujer pero temeroso de lo que pueda suceder en el momento de la verdad, cuando caen máscaras, velos y vestiduras, decide, ya en «la mitad del camino de la vida», contar su historia, revelar su secreto. Porque Cal, como Tiresias, ha viv...

En la primavera de 1974, Calliope Stephanides, una estudiant d’un col·legi de noies de Grosse Point (Michigan), se sent atreta per una companya de classe. Els sentiments que sorgeixen entre elles fa pensar a la Callie que no és com les altres noies. Calliope, anomenada Callie, i després Cal, una espècie rara d’hermafrodita, ha v...

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel." Anthony Trollope It's the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that li...