{"product_id":"9781784745615-secondhand-call-me-ishmaelle","title":"Call Me Ishmaelle","description":"A reimagining of Moby Dick from the perspective of a cross-dressing female sailor.\n\nMoby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor\n\n'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare\n'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy\n\n1843. 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.\n\nCall 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.\n\nThrough 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.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49184035307739,"sku":"9781784745615-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/fdc12950-37e1-4771-b8bd-f42094b71b1f.jpg?v=1787765055","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781784745615-secondhand-call-me-ishmaelle","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}