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‘The year’s most sumptuously enjoyable book … Eugenides gives Callie a graceful fluency of style, enriched with witty phrasing and sensuous detail, that is worthy of John Updike’

Sunday Times Books of the Year

‘Expansive and radiantly generous … a colossal act of curiosity, of imagination and of love’

New York Times Book Review Books of the Year

‘Middlesex is a great Greek-American hermaphrodite epic that we didn’t realise we needed until we read it’

Jay Mclnerney’s Book of the Year, Observer

‘Poised and challenging … compounding stories of immigration and personal reinvention, Eugenides fits the theme of hermaphroditism into the shape of the epic American novel, sprawling through three generations and across a century’

The Times

‘The best American novel since Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections. exuberant, ambitious, deeply compassionate and wildly funny’

GQ

‘A rich comedy … The narrative tone has possible progenitors in Muriel Spark and John Irving, but bears the individual imprint of Greek America’

Guardian

‘Wide in scope, rich in classical allusion … Eugenides is superb at evoking character, and his eye for period detail is absolutely convincing’

Independent on Sunday

’Middlesex has epic sweep, but the mode is archly comic in a way that points backwards to Philip Roth and Saul Bellow as well as to contemporaries David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen and our own Zadie Smith … What really sets Middlesex apart is its warmth and generosity, its pervading air of historical optimism and inclusive, allusive cleverness … novels as good as this aren’t published very often’

Time Out

‘A vibrant chronicle of three generations of a Greek-American immigrant family living through the twentieth century … wonderful’

Independent

‘The true triumph of this novel lies in Eugenides’s ability to move beyond mere titillation, and into a sort of intensification of universal experience … superbly readable’

Sunday Telegraph

‘A sweeping, funny, and tender story of a girl’s unlikely journey to manhood … Eugenides has emerged as the great American writer that many of us suspected him of being’

Los Angeles Times Book Review

‘A marvellously, quirky and moving entertainment, with the narrative energy of Defoe and the gamesomeness of Sterne … In an age of pinched postmodernism, the expansive premodernism of Jeffrey Eugenides’ new book should be welcomed with great cheers and libations of black wine’

Literary Review

‘Employs all its author’s rich storytelling talents to give us one Greek-American family’s idiosyncratic journey … A deeply affecting portrait of one family’s tumultuous engagement with the American twentieth century’

New York Times

‘Genuinely moving … That Eugenides manages to move us without sinking into sentiment shows how successfully he has avoided the tentacles of irony which grip so many writers of his generation’

Times Literary Supplement

‘A wonderfully rich, ambitious novel’

Salman Rushdie, New York Magazine

‘Hilarious and touching … So wildly imaginative that it borders on the bizarre, and yet so warm-hearted that it’s hard to resist’

USA Today

‘Even as Eugenides gives us a contemporary model for the grand narratives of social realism, he has conscripted scientific arguments into the service of unforgettably beautiful myths and metaphors for human nature’

Evening Standard

‘Wildly inventive … it was worth the wait; this is a truly extraordinary novel based around one brilliantly drawn character’

Red

‘The ideal book for those who enjoy intimate tales on an epic scale. *****’

Sunday Express

‘A grand narrative of the immigrant experience and a deliciously twisted romance’

Esquire

‘Ever so rarely, I read a novel that deserves the accolade of ’tour de force’. Jeffrey Eugenides’s new book Middlesex is such a novel, managing to be both immense in its human scope and moving and funny in its human detail. Life-changing is a rather alarming way to describe a book, but I suspect this one is just that’

Joanna Trollope’s Book of the Year, Daily Mail

‘Unprecedented, astounding … The most reliably American story there is: A son of immigrants finally finds love after growing up feeling like a freak’

San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

‘Handled with storytelling genius … a good, old-fashioned family saga, owing its epic qualities to a fine cast of memorable individuals’

Image

‘Not for nothing has Eugenides been acclaimed as some new Homer: he offers similar scope, heroics and Greeks enduring watery misadventures … the prose is always generous, frequently amusing and never dull’

Financial Times

‘A vast great sprawling story, flickering through three generations, brilliantly engaging, stunningly written’

Anna Pavord’s Book of the Year, Evening Standard

‘Dazzling …a big, fat, funny American book without which no chattering-class home is complete’

GQ