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Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Jeffrey Eugenides published in 2002. The book is a bestseller, with more than four million copies sold since its publication. Its characters and events are loosely based on aspects of Eugenides' life and observations of his Greek heritage.
Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8, 1960) is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993), Middlesex (2002), and The Marriage Plot (2011).
Calliope "Callie" (later changes name to Cal) Helen Stephanides is the omniscient narrator of the novel. [1] In 1960, he is born with 5-alpha-reductase deficiency, a mutation that causes him to physically look like a girl, when in fact, he possesses the hormones of a boy. [2]
Peter Harmer Lovesey (born 10 September 1936), also known by his pen name Peter Lear, is a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels and short stories. . His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in B
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Academic Torrents [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] is a website which enables the sharing of research data using the BitTorrent protocol. The site was founded in November 2013 ...
Middlesex (2002) by Jeffrey Eugenides is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel narrated by an intersex character who discusses the societal experience of an intersex person. [7] The novel's interrelationship between intersex and incest gave the book a controversial reception from intersex commentators.
Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents (Russian: Вешние воды Veshniye vody), is an 1872 novella [2] by Ivan Turgenev. It is highly autobiographical in nature, and centers on a young Russian landowner, Dimitry Sanin, who falls deliriously in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt .