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One of the best, most succinct short stories I have ever read. Even before I had read Middlesex or even heard of Eugenides, I read this in a best short story collection and was blown away. It is a masterpiece. Even if you don't like his other work, read this.
Air Mail erzählt von der Unmöglichkeit der Kommunikation, von Grenzerfahrungen in fremden Ländern und im eigenen Bewusstsein. Die Bratenspritze beleuchtet das Ticken der biologischen Uhr einer modernen Amerikanerin aus dem Blickwinkel ihres abgelegten Liebhabers. Und Timesharing stellt auf erschreckende Art Wunsch und Realität gegenüber und sieht baufällige Architektur als Spiegel des alternden Körpers.Eugenides versteht es wunderbar das Alltägliche mit dem Aussergewöhnlichen zu vermischen, sein...
This appears to be a collection of 3 short stories by Eugenides, here's a translation of the german review above:Paradise can beat a very nice on the stomach. What good is the most beautiful palm beach in the world of fine white sand and blue lagoon, if one is forced by a pesky intestinal infection, doze all day long in a seedy reed hut in front of him? No wonder that the alternative tourist and backpacker Mitchell on the remote island in the Gulf of Siam comes to mind quite miraculous.The amoeb...
Awesome charakters and a good stories. Jeffrey Eugenides truly is one of the best modern authors.
This is just a tiny chapbook, a preview of the short story collection Fresh Complaint by the author of The Virgin Suicides and The Marriage Plot. It describes the end of a great, if unsettling, journey that a young Detroit man named Mitchell Grammaticus undergoes whilst fighting a losing battle with dysentery on an island off Bangkok. As readers learn more of Mitchell’s absorption into the writings of Ghandi and Saint Francis Xavier, they also learn how lost he seems to the outside world through...