Carmen Boullosa

They're Cows, We're Pigs (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Chambers, Leland H.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A dark, thought-provoking adventure that "artfully evokes the blood-soaked reality of 17th-century pirates" ( Entertainment Weekly). This "wryly humorous, satiric, and often macabre novel" ( Library Journal) follows Jean Smeeks, a Flemish thirteen-year-old who signs up as an indentured servant with the French West Indies Company, but instead winds up a slave on the notorious island of Tortuga. Over time, he learns the arts of herbal medicine and surgery-a skill that allows him to join a band of Caribbean pirates. Contrasting Jean's romantic pull toward the "Brethren of the Coast"-an all-male society pursuing socialist, anti-colonialist ideals-with the brutal reality of their lawless existence, They're Cows, We're Pigs is a "unique and memorable" novel whose "pirate world leaves you as a good book should: thinking" ( The Boston Herald).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grove Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781555846039
• Artikelnr.: 38324046

Autorenporträt

Carmen Boullosa is a Mexican poet, novelist and playwright. Her work focuses on the issues of feminism and gender roles within a Latin American context.