EAN: 9781784745615

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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.

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