The bitter taste.

About a week ago I finished reading a book called Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (the author of The Virgin Suicides) and enjoyed it so much I decided to dedicate it a post. This story is about a hermaphrodite named Calliope who is growing up as a girl until she/he reaches 14 and realizes she/he feels more like a boy rather than a girl. The narrator also talks widely about Cal´s Greek family so the reader understands the background of this special person.

Have any of your read this book? Did you like it?

"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."

Asi pred týždňom som dočítala knihu s názvom "Hermafrodit" od Jeffrey Eugenides (autora Smrti panien) a páčila sa mi natoľko, že som sa jej rozhodla venovať príspevok. Tento príbeh je o hermafroditovi menom Calliope, ktorá vyrastá ako dievča až kým dosiahne 14 rokov a zistí, že sa cíti viac ako chlapec než dievča. Rozprávač taktiež podrobne opíše históriu gréckej rodiny, do ktorej sa Calliope narodila aby čitateľ pochopil pozadie tejto špeciálnej osoby.

Čítal niekto z vás túto knihu? Páčila sa vám?