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From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Middlesex, and the now classic Virgin Suicides - a novel about three college students in the 1980s as they struggle to make sense of life and modern love.

In einem kleinasiatischen Bergdorf fängt alles an. Ein junger Mann und eine junge Frau, Bruder und Schwester, fliehen vor den Türken nach Smyrna und, als die Stadt brennt, nach Amerika. Es ist das Jahr 1922. Auf dem Schiff heiraten sie und lassen sich später in der Autostadt Detroit nieder. Niemand ahnt das Geheimnis dieses Paares, doch nach Jahrzehnten hat der Tabubruch der beiden ungeahnte Folgen.

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It's the early 1980s--the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels. But real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. 416 pp. 400, 000 print. (General Fiction)

A New York Times Notable Book of 2011A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 titleOne of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011 It's the early 1980s-the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is harder than ever. In the cafés on College Hill, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listenin...

Novel. The story of five adolescent sisters that commit suicide in one year. A group of adolescent try to undestand those lives twenty years later.

Paperback edition of Eugenides' highly acclaimed latest novel, set in the early 1980s among a group of American college students. From the author of "The Virgin Suicides", which has sold more than 100, 000 copies and was adapted into a successful film, and "Middlesex", which sold more than 3 million copies and won the Pulitzer Prize. 'Eugenides has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being.' "Los Angeles Times

Part Tristram Shandy, part Ishmael, part Holden Caulfield, Cal is a wonderfully engaging narrator. . . A deeply affecting portrait of one family's tumultuous engagement with the American twentieth century." --"The New York Times" "Expansive and radiantly generous. . . Deliriously American." --"The New York Times Book Review" (cover review) "A towering achievement. . . . [Eugenides] has emerged as the great American writer that many of us sus...

En menos de un ao y medio, las cinco hermanas Lisbon, adolescentes entre trece y diecisiete aos, se suicidaron. Atravesadas por los hierros de la verja tras haber saltado por una ventana, asfixiadas con la cabeza dentro del horno, empecinadas en el uso de la horca o el cuchillo que abre las venas, murieron una tras otra, obstinadamente suicidas. Los jovencitos del barrio haban estado siempre fascinados por esas inalcanzables jvenes en flor, at...

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Niveau A2 - 1.200 Wörter Englisch lernen mit Early Music - zwei ausgewählte Kurzgeschichten von Jeffrey Eugenides: Schwangerschaftspartys gegen das unerbittliche Ticken der biologischen Uhr und Musik, die das Leben einer Familie bestimmt - die humorvoll-sarkastischen Erzählungen sind unterhaltsam und tiefgründig zugleich. Jeffrey Eugenides ist ein begnadeter Geschichtenerzähler, der mit seinen detaillierten Charakterbeschreibungen ein subtile...

A group of teenage boys in a Detroit suburb have come under the siren spell of a group of like-aged sisters, the Lisbon girls, the eldest of whom, Cecilia, has killed herself by jumping out a bedroom window onto a fence. Shocked and dislocated by the fact of young, willful death, the boys are increasingly fascinated as the always strict and secretive Lisbon family goes into a kind of cold storage (the other girls eventually withdraw from schoo...

A National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistNamed a Best Book of the Year byThe New York Times Book Review . NPR . The New Republic . Salon . The Seattle Times . Houston Chronicle . The Miami Herald . Publisher's Weekly "Remind[s] us with uncommon understanding what it is to be young and idealistic, in pursuit of true love, and in love with books and ideas."-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times"A grand romance in the Austen tradition."-USA To...

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate 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. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia - back before the Detroit race riot...

Un narratore "collettivo", voce di un gruppo di coetanei maschi, rievoca a vent'anni di distanza la vicenda delle cinque sorelle Lisbon, oggetto proibito della loro adolescenza, avvolte in un'aura di mistero che la tragica fine comune - si sono tutte tolte la vita nel breve spazio di un anno - ha fissato per sempre. Nella memoria di questi antichi, tenacissimi spasimanti, esse divengono il simbolo di una possibilità remota e perduta: l'irruzio...

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A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of short stories on the theme of love in its many forms: romantic, erotic, impossible, undying and exhausted. Featuring the very best contemporary and classic authors, including Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, Milan Kundera, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver and Alice Munro. 'Eugenides's artful arrangement of the stories adds to their pleasure. The collection is full of intriguing echoes tha...