Francisco Goldman

The Ordinary Seaman

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The Ordinary Seaman, the second novel from acclaimed writer Francisco Goldman is a lyrical and spellbinding story of hope, despair, and the promise of love. The ordinary seaman is Esteban, a 19-year-old veteran of the war in Nicaragua, who has come to America with 14 other men to form the crew of the Urus. Docked on a desolate Brooklyn pier, the Urus is a wreck, and the men, without the means to return home, become its prisoners. Esteban, haunted by the loss of his first love in the war, gradually works up the courage to escape the ship and start a new life in the city. His story and those of his shipmates come to life, illuminating the confl… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-55584-640-4
EAN: 9781555846404
Produktnummer: 21832802
Verlag: Grove Atlantic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'290 KB

Über den Autor

Francisco Goldman is the author of the novel Say Her Name, which won the 2011 Prix Femina Étranger, a prize for the best foreign novel published in France. His Art of Political Murder, an account of the assassination of Guatemalan bishop Juan José Gerardi Conedera, won the Duke/WOLA Human Rights Book Award and is shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for literary nonfiction.