Im Vorstadthaus der Familie Lisbon leben funf schone Tochter: die gescheite Therese, die pingelige Mary, die asketische Bonnie, die scharfe Lux und die blasse, lammfromme Cecilia. Als sich die jungste von ihnen aus dem Fenster sturzt, beginnt das „Jahr der Selbstmorde“, das alle Beteiligten und Beobachter fur immer verandern wird....

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....

The first-ever collection of short stories from Jeffrey Eugenides, the bestselling author of Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot, explores characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. Kendall has failed as a poet, and......

Previously adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola starring Kirsten Dunst, this is the story of the five Lisbon sisters - beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the entire neighbourhood. The boys that once loved them from afar are now grown men, determined to understand a tragedy that has always defied explanation....

'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....

\"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel\". Anthony Trollope It\"s the early 1980s. In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. But Madeleine Hanna, dutiful......

A brilliant, funny, and heartbreaking novel about the glories and vicissitudes of young love. His many awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers\' Award, and the Harold D.......

\"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 leads Callie......

A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of short stories on the theme of love in its various forms: romantic, erotic, impossible, undying and exhausted. No other aspect of the human experience regularly inspires such an outpouring of poetry, prose and......

\'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....

The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English student and incurable romantic, is writing her thesis on Jane Austen and George Eliot -- authors of the great marriage plots....

The shocking thing about the girls was how nearly normal they seemed when their mother let them out for the one and only date of their lives....

German artist Thomas Demand occupies a singular position in the world of photography. Initially he took up photography to record his ephemeral paper constructions, but in 1993 he turned the tables by making constructions in order to photograph them....

It\'s the early 1980s, In American colleges, the wised-up kids are inhaling Derrida and listening to Talking Heads. Bur Madeleine Hanna, dutiful English major, is writing her senior thesis on Jane Ausfen and George Eliot, purveyors of the marriage plot that lies at the heart of the greatest English novels....