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With about four million copies sold worldwide, Middlesex is an award-winning novel written by Jeffrey Eugenides. It became a bestseller in the genre at that time and is based loosely on the life of the author and depicts many events that are related to his Greek origin. If you are looking forward to reading this great piece of literature, get the free Middlesex Pdf right now from our website.

Middlesex Review:

Middlesex is a pretty complex novel that even though is based on the life of the author himself, there are many themes that he discusses and tried to establish his opinion on matters like emotions and intersex anatomy. The background of the story will be clearer upon you when you will understand the author’s history of reading the 1980 memoir Herculine Barbin and the dissatisfaction he felt after reading it.

As far as the main story of the book is concerned, it revolves around the author and three generations of his family that is hugely affected by a mutated gene and the changes it may cause over these generations. Also, the scholars have said the main themes of this novel to be of rebirth, nature versus nurture, and the differing experiences that a social construct.

Cal is the protagonist of the story who starts pondering about the fact that how he developed female characteristics due to the 5-alpha-reductase deficiency. Besides his present story, the book explores Cal’s family history dating back to his grandfather to give readers more insight into the character’s thinking.

For his different ideas and author’s unique way of exploring them in great storytelling, Middlesex won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction where the reviews called it ‘vastly realized’ and ‘intelligent’.

About the Author Jeffrey Eugenides:

The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award, Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist who has written novels, numerous essays, and short stories.