Jeffrey Eugenides

"The theme of complaint extends beyond the title story, but for listeners the key takeaway is the word 'fresh.' Jeffrey Eugenides's fresh writing...showcases his originality and — since he also narrates it — his ability to navigate multiple accents and personalities." — AudioFile Magazine...

Cinq sœurs vont se donner la mort dans une ville tout ce qu'il y a de plus ordinaire d'une banlieue américaine quelconque dans les années 70.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides comes an intimate memoir of his father’s spectacular rise–and tragic end.

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, 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 physically - leads...

Amerika, Anfang der achtziger Jahre, ein College an der Ostküste. Madeleine Hanna studiert die »Liebeshandlung« viktorianischer Romane. Während sie über den uralten Beweggründen des Herzens brütet, bricht das wirkliche Leben in Gestalt zweier junger Männer über sie herein.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 A 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 2011 A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 title One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011 It's the early 1980s—the...

Eugenides Debütroman über ein erschütterndes Familiendrama: Die fünf Lisbon-Schwestern wachsen gut behütet in einer Mittelstandsfamilie...