They're Cows, We're Pigs - Carmen Boullosa

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epub | 10.49 MB | English| Isbn:9781555846039 | Author: Carmen Boullosa, Leland H. Chambers (Translator) | Year: 2020

Description:

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).

Category:Fiction, Literature, Fiction Subjects, World Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Occupations - Fiction, Latin American Fiction, Nautical & Maritime Fiction, Character Types - Fiction, Colonial Americas - Historical Fiction, Doctors & Nurses - Fiction, Latin American - Women, Magic Realism - Latin American Fiction, Mexican Fiction, Pirates & Privateers - Fiction, Pirates - Fiction

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