Middlesex-中性

作者：Jeffrey Eugenides

书名：Middlesex《中性》

中文背景：《中性》（英语：Middlesex）是美国小说家杰佛瑞·尤金尼德斯2002年的普立兹小说奖得奖小说，也是一部畅销书。书中人物和情节部分取材自作者生平，以及他对自身所承希腊文化的所见所闻。尤金尼德斯在阅读了法国双性人巴宾的回忆录后，因不满意书中有关双性者生理、心理的论述，而决定创作《中性》一书。

英文简介："I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."

So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Pointe, Michigan. To understand why Calliope is not like other girls, she has to uncover a guilty family secret and the astonishing genetic history that turns Callie into Cal, one of the most audacious and wondrous narrators in contemporary fiction. Lyrical and thrilling, Middlesex is an exhilarating reinvention of the American epic.

Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.