{"product_id":"xiaolu-guo-call-me-ishmaelle-2025-hardback","title":"Xiaolu Guo: Call Me Ishmaelle [2025] hardback","description":"\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","brand":"Guo, Xiaolu","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":52473682624851,"sku":"XE81784745608","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":51487568724307,"sku":"9781784745608","price":24.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/guo-xiaolu-xiaolu-guo-call-me-ishmaelle-2025-hardback-9781784745608-1182130917.jpg?v=1764147280","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/xiaolu-guo-call-me-ishmaelle-2025-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}