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The Virgin Suicides
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Jeffrey Eugenides, geb. 1960 in Detroit/Michigan lebt heute mit Frau und Tochter in Berlin, wohin ihn Stipendien des DAAD und der American Academy gelockt haben. Sein Debütroman 'The Virgin Suicides' (dt. 'Die Selbstmord-Schwestern') erregte weltweit Aufsehen und wurde im Jahr 2000 von Sofia Coppola verfilmt. Wie Jonathan Franzen rechneten ihn Kritiker in der Zeitschrift 'The New Yorker' unter die 'Twenty Writers for the 21st Century' und in der Zeitschrift Granta unter die 'Best Young American Novelists'. Jeffrey Eugenides wurde 2003 mit dem 'Welt"-Literaturprei' ausgezeichnet.
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life
The debut novel that caused a sensation and won the immediate acclaim from critics, "The Virgin Suicides" offers a tender, wickedly funny tale of love and terror, sex and suicide, memory and imagination.