ناديني إسماعيل | رواية

Call me Ishmaelle One of the best books of the year, according to Kirkus, “a captivating and interesting book.” - Marie Claire (UK) “Ambitious, brave, and strange.” -Philip Hoar, author of Leviathan From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author, a feminist reimagining of Herman Melville's classic novel Moby-Dick through the eyes of a unique woman and a diverse and adventurous cast. I must work on a ship as a man...I must find freedom on the seas. In 1843, Ishmael was born in a small village on the windy coast of Kent, where she grew up swimming with dolphins. After the death of her parents and baby sister, her brother Joseph left in search of work as a sailor. Feeling lonely and desperate, Ishmael, wanting to live a sea life, disguised herself as a cabin boy and traveled to New York. Years later, with the outbreak of the American Civil War, Ishmael boards the Nimrod, a whaling ship commanded by Captain Seneca, a free black man of heroic stature, haunted by memories of a tragic past. There, Ishmael finds Hama amidst the bloody violence of whaling, and discovers a mysterious connection between herself and the beluga whale whose leg Seneca lost. Building on the core of Melville's classic novel, Call Me Ishmael is a dynamic new story, filled with a diverse cast—from a Polynesian whaler to a Taoist monk—and a powerful exploration of human nature, sexuality, man's place among animals, and the nature of home.