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Call Me Ishmaelle
Engelsk Paperback
Call Me Ishmaelle
Engelsk Paperback

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Moby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor

''Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange'' Philip Hoare
''One of the most valuable writers in the world'' Deborah Levy


1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph, leaves to find work as a sailor. Abandoned and desperate for a life at sea, Ishmaelle disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York.

Call Me Ishmaelle reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick from a female perspective. As the American Civil War breaks out in 1861, Ishmaelle boards the Nimrod, a whaling ship led by the obsessive Captain Seneca, a Black free man of heroic stature who is haunted by a tragic past. Here, she finds protectors in Polynesian harpooner, Kauri, and Taoist monk, Muzi, whose readings of the I-Ching guide their quest.

Through the bloody male violence of whaling, and the unveiling of her feminine identity, Ishmaelle realises there is a mysterious bond between herself and the mythical white whale, Moby Dick. Xiaolu Guo has crafted a dramatically different, feminist narrative that stands alongside the original while offering a powerful exploration of nature, gender and human purpose.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9781784745615
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1784745618
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Udg. Dato:
20 mar 2025
Længde:
35mm
Bredde:
155mm
Højde:
234mm
Forlag:
Random House
Oplagsdato:
20 mar 2025
Forfatter(e):
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