--- product_id: 329845387 title: "The virgin suicides" price: "150 zł" currency: PLN in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.pl/products/329845387-the-virgin-suicides store_origin: PL region: Poland --- # Inspired Sofia Coppola film Timeless modern classic Deep psychological insight The virgin suicides **Price:** 150 zł **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Dive into the hauntingly beautiful story that everyone’s whispering about. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The virgin suicides - **How much does it cost?** 150 zł with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.pl](https://www.desertcart.pl/products/329845387-the-virgin-suicides) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Cinematic Vibes:** Inspired the cult Sofia Coppola film, making it a must-read for cinephiles and trendsetters alike. - • **Psychological Depth:** Explores complex themes of adolescence, obsession, and tragedy with lyrical prose. - • **Provocative & Timeless:** A gripping narrative that challenges and resonates with millennial readers navigating identity and loss. - • **Cult Following on TikTok:** Join thousands who discovered this haunting tale through viral social media buzz. - • **A Modern Classic Reimagined:** Part of the prestigious Collins Modern Classics series, ensuring literary quality and cultural relevance. ## Overview The Virgin Suicides, part of the Collins Modern Classics, is a critically acclaimed novel by Jeffrey Eugenides that explores the mysterious suicides of five sisters through the nostalgic and obsessive eyes of neighborhood boys. Celebrated for its lyrical writing and psychological depth, it has inspired a cult film adaptation and remains a poignant exploration of adolescence, tragedy, and suburban mythos. ## Description Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. That girl didn’t want to die. She just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that decorating scheme. The five Lisbon sisters – beautiful, eccentric and, now, gone –had always been a point of obsession for the entire neighbourhood. Although the boys that once loved them from afar have grown up, they remain determined to understand a tragedy that has defied explanation. The question persists – why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own lives? This lyrical and timless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life announced the arrival of one of the greatest American novelists of the last thirty years. ‘A flare from my own secret world, all the inchoate longings and obsessions of being a teenager somehow rendered into book form’ Emma Cline, author of The Girls Review: Just a Fine Turn of Cherry-tinged Writing - Granted I had heard of Jerry Eugenides pulitizer prize winning novel Middlesex and Sofia Coppola's movie The Virgin Suicides but never really gave it much thought to sit down and read one of Eugenides' books. Upon shopping for fiction-lover brother this past August, I did some desertcartian research and came up with a list of ten or so titles I thought would fit him and his literary tastes. Eugenides' "The Virgin Suicides," made it to the top of the list. So I did the easy thing and ordered it from desertcart and just before wrapping it I took a closer look at the subject matter...hmmm 5 or 6 sisters all kill themselves and that's pretty much the plot of the book...and had second thoughts about unleashing this black macabre upon said brother. Thus, a second gift purchasing of The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics) became the substitute stand-in as I kept "The Virgin Suicides," to read and screen first before unleashing such dark subject matter on another. And on a selfish note, boy, I'm glad I kept it. Good creative writing where sentences are crafted well and language is used uniquely and the narrative is skilled to weave a story wins me over every time, despite subject matter. From a person who has read a few books in his days, Eugenides won me over on the first page. "They got out of the EMS truck, as usual moving much too slowly in our opinion, and the fat one said under his breath, 'This ain't TV, folks, this is how fast we go.' He was carrying the heavy respirator and cardiac unit past the bushes that had grown monstrous and over the erupting lawn, tame and immaculate thirteen months earlier when the trouble began." That's a sentence. In fact its two sentences. In it, along with the book's first sentence, we get pre-announced that this book is going to be about a group of teenage sisters that end up killing themselves and thirteen months time elapsed it will take for the story to unravel. Many authors would think that's putting too much out there in the beginning revealing the big reveal on page 1. It works wonderfully for Eugenides' tale though. The story is told through a Greek Chorus narrator of a group of nosy pubescent boys who investigate and obsess over the Lisbon sisters to no end. And just like the classic tragedy, this story harkens back to a Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet. We don't blink twice about our teenagers being exposed to Romeo and Juliet's star-crossed love affair ending in suicide and murder but the subject matter of Eugenides' "The Virgin Suicides," can be daunting and vexing. The novel is loosely based on a real life event of which I'm not too sure about the details so these kind of things evidently happen. Eugenides just turns it into a moral tale about the ultimate selfishness of such acts and while doing so spins a yarn so perfectly catching the awkwardness and thrill that comes along with growing up in America that you become a believer that this isn't just a black comedy but a tale that reveals something true of the human soul and psyche...an aim for all good literature. So there is a pinnacle moment in the book of which I won't tell of as to not give anything away should you read it. I read a lot of Stephen King books as a kid growing up and though "The Virgin Suicides," isn't a horror book, this piece of writing in a few paragraphs achieves a chill in the bones as much as a novel full of King's Pet Cemetaries or haunted Colorado hotels do. Just listen to this writing, "How long we stayed like that, communing with her departed spirit, we can't remember. Long enough for our collective breath to start a breeze slowly through the room that made Bonnie..." And that's all I'll reveal. The rest you just gotta read for yourself, dear readers. I'll hand off this book pre-screened to the brother now, with a caveat, I want it back to read again someday. Eugenides' "The Virgin Suicides," highly recommended but not for the faint of heart. --mmw Review: there’s a reason it’s a classic - I thought it could be about 100 pages shorter as it was a bit redundant but nonetheless, it was well before its time and the message is still relevant today. ## Features - The Virgin Suicides: TikTok made me buy it! (Collins Modern Classics) ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #454,141 in Office Products ( See Top 100 in Office Products ) #125 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #352 in School Chalk #381 in Psychological Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 13,306 Reviews | ## Images ![The virgin suicides - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81S0HRH+EnL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Just a Fine Turn of Cherry-tinged Writing *by M***Y on September 22, 2009* Granted I had heard of Jerry Eugenides pulitizer prize winning novel Middlesex and Sofia Coppola's movie The Virgin Suicides but never really gave it much thought to sit down and read one of Eugenides' books. Upon shopping for fiction-lover brother this past August, I did some Amazonian research and came up with a list of ten or so titles I thought would fit him and his literary tastes. Eugenides' "The Virgin Suicides," made it to the top of the list. So I did the easy thing and ordered it from Amazon and just before wrapping it I took a closer look at the subject matter...hmmm 5 or 6 sisters all kill themselves and that's pretty much the plot of the book...and had second thoughts about unleashing this black macabre upon said brother. Thus, a second gift purchasing of The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics) became the substitute stand-in as I kept "The Virgin Suicides," to read and screen first before unleashing such dark subject matter on another. And on a selfish note, boy, I'm glad I kept it. Good creative writing where sentences are crafted well and language is used uniquely and the narrative is skilled to weave a story wins me over every time, despite subject matter. From a person who has read a few books in his days, Eugenides won me over on the first page. "They got out of the EMS truck, as usual moving much too slowly in our opinion, and the fat one said under his breath, 'This ain't TV, folks, this is how fast we go.' He was carrying the heavy respirator and cardiac unit past the bushes that had grown monstrous and over the erupting lawn, tame and immaculate thirteen months earlier when the trouble began." That's a sentence. In fact its two sentences. In it, along with the book's first sentence, we get pre-announced that this book is going to be about a group of teenage sisters that end up killing themselves and thirteen months time elapsed it will take for the story to unravel. Many authors would think that's putting too much out there in the beginning revealing the big reveal on page 1. It works wonderfully for Eugenides' tale though. The story is told through a Greek Chorus narrator of a group of nosy pubescent boys who investigate and obsess over the Lisbon sisters to no end. And just like the classic tragedy, this story harkens back to a Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet. We don't blink twice about our teenagers being exposed to Romeo and Juliet's star-crossed love affair ending in suicide and murder but the subject matter of Eugenides' "The Virgin Suicides," can be daunting and vexing. The novel is loosely based on a real life event of which I'm not too sure about the details so these kind of things evidently happen. Eugenides just turns it into a moral tale about the ultimate selfishness of such acts and while doing so spins a yarn so perfectly catching the awkwardness and thrill that comes along with growing up in America that you become a believer that this isn't just a black comedy but a tale that reveals something true of the human soul and psyche...an aim for all good literature. So there is a pinnacle moment in the book of which I won't tell of as to not give anything away should you read it. I read a lot of Stephen King books as a kid growing up and though "The Virgin Suicides," isn't a horror book, this piece of writing in a few paragraphs achieves a chill in the bones as much as a novel full of King's Pet Cemetaries or haunted Colorado hotels do. Just listen to this writing, "How long we stayed like that, communing with her departed spirit, we can't remember. Long enough for our collective breath to start a breeze slowly through the room that made Bonnie..." And that's all I'll reveal. The rest you just gotta read for yourself, dear readers. I'll hand off this book pre-screened to the brother now, with a caveat, I want it back to read again someday. Eugenides' "The Virgin Suicides," highly recommended but not for the faint of heart. --mmw ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ there’s a reason it’s a classic *by L***H on July 21, 2026* I thought it could be about 100 pages shorter as it was a bit redundant but nonetheless, it was well before its time and the message is still relevant today. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Hard to read *by E***E on August 23, 2026* 8/18/26 - 8/22/26 The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides This was one of the books on the Goodreads challenge. I found the book difficult to read in the subject as it was and is a very situational societal factor still in the twenty-first century. With that, many times, we do not know why an individual, let alone a group of individuals, commit suicide. Of course due to human nature and speculation many times vicious cruel comments come forth reasoning the whys and what for nots of why these suicides transpire. One cannot truly be inn someone else’s mindset at that time or life and I feel this is not a good topic to be discussing about in the way it was in this novel. Depression, living conditions, familial relationships and dynamics all play into mindsets and we do not live behind someone else’s closed front doors. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Virgin Suicides: Jeffrey Eugenides (Collins Modern Classics) - Girl, Interrupted: A Memoir - The Bell Jar (Modern Classics) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.pl/products/329845387-the-virgin-suicides](https://www.desertcart.pl/products/329845387-the-virgin-suicides) --- *Product available on Desertcart Poland* *Store origin: PL* *Last updated: 2026-09-04*