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Written by Jeffrey Eugenides - Audio book performed by Kristoffer Tabori - Unabridged Fiction - 2 MP3 LIBRARY EDITION COMPACT DISCS - 21 hours, 27 minutes

Publisher, BBC Audiobooks America (September 2003)

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Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Oprah's Book Club Pick, June 2007

"Without a doubt, this audio edition of Eugenides’s long-awaited second novel represents an acme of the audiobook genre: the whole equals much more than the sum of its parts. ... [Kristoffer] Tabori’s performance of the text is phenomenal. ...Not only are his interpretations of the characters astonishingly credible, but his internalization of the narrative is nothing short of amazing. Listeners will feel this exhilarating story is being told personally to them for the very first time.” —AudioFile

"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."

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them—along with Callie's failure to develop—leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs takes us out of suburbia—back before the Detroit race riots of 1967, before the rise of the Motor City and Prohibition, to 1922, when the Turks sacked Smyrna and Callie's grandparents fled for their lives. Back to a tiny village in Asia Minor where two lovers, and one rare genetic mutation, set in motion the metamorphosis that will turn Callie into a being both mythical and perfectly real: a hermaphrodite.

About the Author: Jeffrey Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan and attended Brown and Stanford Universities. His first novel, The Virgin Suicides, was published to acclaim in 1993. It has been translated into fifteen languages and made into a feature film. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review and Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists."

About the Performer: Kristoffer Tabori can be seen or heard on television, films, on and off Broadway, regional theatre, radio plays and voiceovers. He is also a director who has worked on stage, film and television. He is the recipient of many awards including an Emmy, The Theatre World Award, The LA Drama Critics Award, The LA Weekly Award, ten Drama-Logue Awards and was also nominated for a DGA award. Most recently he won an APA 2003 Audie Award for his narration of Middlesex.

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