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"Ambitious, brave, and strange."--Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan
From the NBCC-winning author, a subversive, rollicking, and feminist retelling of Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman
I must work on a ship as a man . . . Yes, I must seek a new life, more adventurous than that of my fellows on this desolate salt marsh. I must find freedom on the seas.
One of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, Xiaolu Guo is the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Nine Continents and a Granta Best Young British Novelist. In Call Me Ishmaelle, Guo turns Herman Melville's masterpiece on its head with a modern feminist, diasporic sensibility.
Built on the bones of Melville's classic, Call Me Ishmaelle is a dynamic new tale, imbued with a diverse, swashbuckling crew--from a Polynesian harpooner to a Taoist Monk--and a powerful exploration of human nature, gender, man's place among the animals, and the nature of home.
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"Ambitious, brave, and strange."--Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan
From the NBCC-winning author, a subversive, rollicking, and feminist retelling of Moby-Dick through the eyes of one inimitable woman
I must work on a ship as a man . . . Yes, I must seek a new life, more adventurous than that of my fellows on this desolate salt marsh. I must find freedom on the seas.
One of the most acclaimed Chinese-born writers of her generation, Xiaolu Guo is the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Nine Continents and a Granta Best Young British Novelist. In Call Me Ishmaelle, Guo turns Herman Melville's masterpiece on its head with a modern feminist, diasporic sensibility.
Built on the bones of Melville's classic, Call Me Ishmaelle is a dynamic new tale, imbued with a diverse, swashbuckling crew--from a Polynesian harpooner to a Taoist Monk--and a powerful exploration of human nature, gender, man's place among the animals, and the nature of home.