Neutral
by M
About This Novel
Hosseini, the author of "The Kite Runner", highly recommended by media queen Oprah, Anne Hathaway, and Stefanie Sun! After Marquez, Kundera, and Suskind, there is a name you cannot miss: Jeffrey Eugenides! A heavyweight contemporary classic epic, it won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Literature and was selected by the BBC as one of the 12 greatest English novels of the 21st century! It tells the story of an adolescent boy's difficult self-identification process from the special perspective of a bisexual person and a collection of literary techniques, unfolds the fate of a Greek family in the long history of the United States, and explores the mysteries of human nature in a detailed and insightful way across the past and present. The Greek-American writer Eugenides' novel "Neutral" won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The Greek-American protagonist Stephanides was "born" twice: the first time in Detroit in 1960, when she was a baby girl; the second time in 1974 in Michigan, when he became a fourteen-year-old boy. According to the medical report, she\u002FHe is a rare "hermaphrodite", but her\u002Fhis fate, or the common fate of mankind, is: one must choose a life, either "he" or "she". Tracing up the family tree, tracing the genetic destiny that spans two continents for hundreds of years, this traceback is not only physical and personal, but also literary. All of this makes "Neutral" simultaneously reveal the dual aspects of male and female, tragedy and comedy, classical and postmodern.
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