{"product_id":"call-me-ishmaelle-xiaolu-guo-9781529929997","title":"Call Me Ishmaelle","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom prize-winning author Xiaolu Guo comes a dazzling gender-flipped reimagining of Moby Dick \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A smart gender-flipped version of Moby Dick' Daily Telegraph\n\u003cbr\u003e'A clever and original skewering of a classic' i News\n\u003cbr\u003e'A brilliantly written reordering of Moby-Dick' Philip Hoare\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eCall Me Ishmaelle reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville's Moby Dick from a female perspective - perfect for fans Madeline Miller, Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1843, in a small village on the stormy Kent coast, Ishmaelle is born. She grows up swimming with dolphins and eventually - desperate for a life at sea - she disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York.\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003eAs the American Civil War breaks out, Ishmaelle boards 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 amidst the bloody male violence of whaling and discovers a mysterious bond between herself and the mythical white whale Moby Dick...\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Guo has gender-flipped this intimidating text with bravura and style... Call Me Ishmaelle takes us on a courageous journey- it's no aping of a classic, rather a vision of a young woman sailing out to discover not a whale but her own self. And in that, it happily succeeds' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An astonishingly ambitious undertaking . . . you're in the hands of a genuine storyteller' New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xiaolu Guo","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49335359111411,"sku":"9781529929997","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781529929997.jpg?v=1782938999","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/call-me-ishmaelle-xiaolu-guo-9781529929997","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}