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Call Me Ishmaelle
Engelsk
Bogcover for Call Me Ishmaelle af Xiaolu Guo, 9781529929997
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
448
ISBN-13:
9781529929997
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1529929997
Udg. Dato:
19 mar 2026
Størrelse i cm:
19,8 x 12,9 x 3,5
Oplagsdato:
19 mar 2026
Forfatter(e):

Call Me Ishmaelle

Engelsk
Paperback 2026
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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.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
448
ISBN-13:
9781529929997
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1529929997
Udg. Dato:
19 mar 2026
Størrelse i cm:
19,8 x 12,9 x 3,5
Oplagsdato:
19 mar 2026
Forfatter(e):
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