{"product_id":"call-me-ishmaelle-xiaolu-guo","title":"Call Me Ishmaelle (Xiaolu Guo)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCall Me Ishmaelle\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville's \u003ci\u003eMoby Dick \u003c\/i\u003efrom a female perspective.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare\u003cbr\u003e'A clever and original skewering of a classic'\u003ci\u003e i\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1843. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for fans Madeline Miller, Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eXiaolu Guo\u003c\/b\u003e was born in China. She published six books before moving to Britain in 2002. Her books include: \u003ci\u003eVillage of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; \u003ci\u003eA Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e, shortlisted for the Orange Prize; and\u003ci\u003e I Am China\u003c\/i\u003e. Her recent memoir, \u003ci\u003eOnce Upon a Time in the East\u003c\/i\u003e, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize 2018. It was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Her most recent novel \u003ci\u003eA Lover's Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2020. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at the Free University in Berlin.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Trade paperback (UK), Englisch, 448 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65780324008285,"sku":"K097911526","price":15.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9791152600001A.jpg?v=1788314939","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/call-me-ishmaelle-xiaolu-guo","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}