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New Releases by Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides is the author of Tidig musik (2019), Bakir Intiharlar (2019), Das große Experiment (2018), Fresh Complaint (2017), The Picture of Dorian Gray (2015).

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Tidig musik

release date: Feb 13, 2019
Tidig musik
I Tidig musik har Jeffrey Eugenides samlat noveller som han skrivit sedan slutet av åttiotalet och många av dem handlar om själsligt självskadebeteende. Få samtida författare skriver lika träffsäkert om företrädesvis välutbildade män och kvinnor ur medelklassen vars liv sakta men säkert börjat rämna. De har sunkiga kök och sömnproblem, deras karriärer har gått i stå och hustaken läcker. Eugenides är särskilt intresserad av männen, av att tränga sig in i de mörka och outtalade inre tankarna hos äkta män och fäder. Till exempel är Charlie, som han gärna medger i "Hitta skurken", "bristfällig make" till en kvinna som bara gifte sig med honom för att få uppehållstillstånd. För sent kommer han underfund med vad som är nyckeln till en god relation. "Vid frukosten skickar man marmeladen. Man frågar: ́Hur har du haft det idag? ́ och låtsas bry sig. Såna grejer funkar verkligen." Samlingen rymmer tio noveller. Den tidigaste, "Otämjda trädgårdar", skrevs 1988, alltså fem år innan debutromanen Dödens Jungfrur gavs ut. De senaste texterna är daterade 2017.

Bakir Intiharlar

release date: Jan 01, 2019

Das große Experiment

release date: Nov 20, 2018
Das große Experiment
Spätestens seit seinem Weltbestseller "Middlesex" wissen wir, dass Jeffrey Eugenides über Liebe, Ehe und Familie auf geradezu süchtig machende Weise schreiben kann. Die Sammlung von Erzählungen, in Amerika seine erste überhaupt, zeigt ihn nun wieder auf der Höhe seiner Kunst. "Das große Experiment " handelt von Menschen, die in Schwierigkeiten stecken – meist sind es Ehepaare, Paare. Da ist ein Familienvater, der im Garten an der Feuerstelle sitzt und auf sein Haus schaut, das er nach einem Seitensprung nicht mehr betreten darf. Da ist ein junges Mädchen, das von den indischen Eltern an einen Unbekannten verheiratet werden soll; um dem zu entgehen, verführt sie einen Mann, der nicht weiß, dass sie noch minderjährig ist, und wirft ihn dadurch aus der Bahn. Da ist ein Lektor, der viel arbeitet und trotzdem so wenig verdient, dass seine beiden Kinder oft woanders übernachten müssen, weil zu Hause das Geld fürs Heizen fehlt; also beschließt er, sich das dringend Benötigte selbst zu beschaffen, und veruntreut das Vermögen seines Chefs. Da ist die 88-jährige Della, die mit einer Demenz-Diagnose in ein Pflegeheim kommt; ihre langjährige Freundin entführt sie trotz Schneesturm-Warnung in ein abgelegenes Haus. Und schließlich ist da noch die junge Frau, die sich per Bratenspritze ihren Kinderwunsch erfüllen will. Verkappte Romane oder doch eher nicht? Jeffrey Eugenides, der "Epiker" unter den amerikanischen Romanautoren, ist auch ein Meister der kleineren Form – das zeigen diese virtuos komponierten und mit großer Menschenkenntnis erzählten Geschichten.

Fresh Complaint

release date: Oct 03, 2017
Fresh Complaint
The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides

The Picture of Dorian Gray

release date: Jan 06, 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde’s only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliant puzzle, intended to tease convention minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative preface, challenging the reader to believe in “art for art’s sake”, to its sensational conclusion, the book explores the nature of sin through the tale of a young man who sells his soul for a lifetime of beauty.

La trama nupcial

release date: Feb 06, 2013
La trama nupcial
Estamos a principios de los años ochenta del siglo pasado. Madeleine Hanna, una romántica incurable que está escribiendo su tesis sobre el amor en Jane Austen y George Eliot. También ella se convertirá en protagonista de una historia de amor apasionada, dolorosa e intensa. Porque en su vida aparecerán dos hombres muy diferentes. Leonard Bankhead, solitario, carismático y brillante estudiante de ciencias, y Mitchell Grammaticus, estudiante de teología atormentado por las dudas. Una vez finalizada la universidad, el triángulo se mantendrá, obligándoles a enfrentarse con el final de la juventud y a reflexionar sobre el sentido último de la vida y la verdadera naturaleza del amor. «Jeffrey Eugenides posee un talento enorme y generoso » (Jonathan Franzen). «Nos recuerda con una lucidez fuera de lo común lo que significa ser joven e idealista, perseguir el verdadero amor y enamorarse de los libros y las ideas» (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

Huwelijk / druk 6

release date: Jul 01, 2012
Huwelijk / druk 6
In de jaren tachtig van de 20e eeuw hebben twee studenten en een studente tijdens en vlak na hun afstuderen aan een Amerikaanse universiteit een complexe verhouding.

Bryllupsintrigen

release date: Jan 01, 2012

A trama do casamento

release date: Jan 01, 2012
A trama do casamento
Depois de ler críticos como Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes e Michel Foucault, a estudante Madeleine Hanna percebe que gostar de romances já não é o bastante para justificar sua vontade de se graduar em letras. O autor está morto, os livros viraram textos, a semiótica está desconstruindo a linguagem. E já não há romantismo. O que ela não sabe é se deve mesmo se adequar a esse mundo pouco sentimental, em que a devoção por escritoras vitorianas parece um crime. E ainda maior é sua dúvida entre os dois homens que a disputam.

少女死亡日記

release date: Jan 01, 2012
少女死亡日記
Traditional Chinese edition of Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, the Pulitzer Prize winner for his novel Middlesex. Virgin Suicides In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Middlesex (Versione italiana)

release date: Dec 05, 2011
Middlesex (Versione italiana)
Dopo dieci anni di silenzio torna l''autore de Le vergini suicide . Una ben strana vicenda viene raccontata da Calliope Stephanides, una rara specie di ermafrodito che ha vissuto i primi anni della sua vita come bambina, prima di scoprire la sua doppia natura...

The Marriage Plot

release date: Oct 11, 2011
The Marriage Plot
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 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 listening to Talking Heads. But 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. As Madeleine tries to understand why "it became laughable to read writers like Cheever and Updike, who wrote about the suburbia Madeleine and most of her friends had grown up in, in favor of reading the Marquis de Sade, who wrote about deflowering virgins in eighteenth-century France," real life, in the form of two very different guys, intervenes. Leonard Bankhead—charismatic loner, college Darwinist, and lost Portland boy—suddenly turns up in a semiotics seminar, and soon Madeleine finds herself in a highly charged erotic and intellectual relationship with him. At the same time, her old "friend" Mitchell Grammaticus—who''s been reading Christian mysticism and generally acting strange—resurfaces, obsessed with the idea that Madeleine is destined to be his mate. Over the next year, as the members of the triangle in this amazing, spellbinding novel graduate from college and enter the real world, events force them to reevaluate everything they learned in school. Leonard and Madeleine move to a biology Laboratory on Cape Cod, but can''t escape the secret responsible for Leonard''s seemingly inexhaustible energy and plunging moods. And Mitchell, traveling around the world to get Madeleine out of his mind, finds himself face-to-face with ultimate questions about the meaning of life, the existence of God, and the true nature of love. Are the great love stories of the nineteenth century dead? Or can there be a new story, written for today and alive to the realities of feminism, sexual freedom, prenups, and divorce? With devastating wit and an abiding understanding of and affection for his characters, Jeffrey Eugenides revives the motivating energies of the Novel, while creating a story so contemporary and fresh that it reads like the intimate journal of our own lives.

Huwelijk

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Huwelijk
In de jaren tachtig van de 20e eeuw hebben twee studenten en een studente tijdens en vlak na hun afstuderen aan een Amerikaanse universiteit een complexe verhouding.

Özgün adı:The virgin suicides

release date: Jan 01, 2007

Nevina samoubojstva

release date: Jan 01, 2004

Les tortues de Zanzibar

release date: Jan 01, 2003

Deviški samomori

release date: Jan 01, 2002

The Virgin Suicides

release date: Mar 01, 2001

Las Vírgenes suicidas

release date: Jan 01, 1997
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