They're Cows, We're Pigs
The emerging societies of the Caribbean in the seventeenth century were a riotous assembly of pirates, aristocrats, revolutionaries, and rogues -- outcasts and fortune seekers all. In They're Cows, We're Pigs, acclaimed Mexican novelist Carmen Boullosa animates this world of bloody chaos and uncertain possibility through the eyes of the young Jean Smeeks, kidnapped in Flanders at age thirteen and sold into indentured servitude on Tortuga, the mythical Treasure Island. Trained in the magic of medicine by le Negre Miel, an African slave healer, and Pineau, a French-born surgeon, Smeeks signs on as a medical officer with the pirate band the Bret…
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Weitere Autoren: Chambers, Leland H. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8021-3786-9
- EAN: 9780802137869
- Produktnummer: 19611470
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.3 cm 245 g
- Auflage: Pbk
- Gewicht: 245
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