Books by Jeffrey Eugenides

Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola and starring Kirsten Dunst, this is the story of the five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the entire neighbourhood.The boys that once loved them from afar are now grown men, determined to understand a tragedy that has always defied explanation. For still, the question remains - why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own lives?This hypnotic and unforgettable novel treats adolescent love and death with haunting sensitivity and dark humour, and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time.

The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex and The Marriage Plot

Eugenides Debütroman über ein erschütterndes Familiendrama: Die fünf Lisbon-Schwestern wachsen gut behütet in einer Mittelstandsfamilie in einer Vorstadt im Norden der USA auf. Doch als sich die Jüngste aus dem Fenster stürzt und ihre Schwestern sich innerhalb eines Jahres ebenfalls eine nach der anderen umbringen, ist nichts mehr, wie es mal war. Erzählt aus der Perspektive der Nachbarjungen steht nicht so sehr die Frage nach den Motiven der Mädchen im Vordergrund, sondern der Umgang der Hinterbliebenen mit den Vorfällen.Jeffrey Eugenides ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftseller, der 1960 in Detroit, Michigan, geboren wurde. Er studierte Englisch und Creative Writing und veröffentlichte 1999 seinen ersten Roman „Die Selbstmord-Schwestern", der von Sofia Coppola verfilmt wurde. 2003 erhielt er den Pulitzer-Preis sowie den „Welt"-Literaturpreis für seinen Bestseller „Middlesex". Neben seiner Tätigkeit als Autor lehrt er Creative Writing an der Princeton University in New Jersey.

Den første novellesamling af Pulitzer-modtageren Jeffrey Eugenides, forfatter til bl.a. romanerne Jomfruselvmorderne og Middlesex. Skarpe, indsigtsfulde historier om en række personer, der står midt i en personlig eller national krise. Vi møder en falleret digter, som er jaloux på andres rigdom under boligboblen i USA og ender som økonomisk bedrager; en pianist, hvis kunstdrømme smuldrer i rollen som far og ægtemand; og en gymnasieelev, der i ønsket om at undslippe sin families stramme regler tager en drastisk beslutning, der vender op og ned på en midaldrende akademikers liv.

The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides.Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot - authors of the great marriage plots. As Madeleine studies the age-old motivations of the human heart, real life, in the form of two very different men, intervenes.Leonard Bankhead, brilliant scientist and charismatic loner, attracts Madeleine with an intensity that she seems powerless to resist. Meanwhile, her old friend Mitchell Grammaticus, a theology student searching for some kind of truth in life, is certain of at least one thing - that he and Madeleine are destined to be together.But as all three leave college, they will have to figure out how they want their own marriage plot to end.

"e;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."e;So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and her truly unique family secret, born on the slopes of Mount Olympus and passed on through three generations.Growing up in 70s Michigan, Calliope's special inheritance will turn her into Cal, the narrator of this intersex, inter-generational epic of immigrant life in 20th century America.Middlesex won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.