{"product_id":"9781529929997","title":"Call Me Ishmaelle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eby Guo, Xiaolu \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished 19\/03\/2026 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaperback | 448 pages\u003c\/p\u003e197 x 129 x 29mm | 308g\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A smart gender-flipped version of Moby Dick’ Daily Telegraph‘A clever and original skewering of a classic’ i News‘A brilliantly written reordering of Moby-Dick’ Philip HoareCall Me Ishmaelle reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick from a female perspective – perfect for fans Madeline Miller, Percival Everett and Barbara KingsolverIn 1843, in a small village on the stormy Kent coast, Ishmaelle is born. She grows up swimming with dolphins and eventually – desperate for a life at sea – she disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the American Civil War breaks out, Ishmaelle boards 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 amidst the bloody male violence of whaling and discovers a mysterious bond between herself and the mythical white whale Moby Dick…‘One of the most valuable writers in the world’ Deborah Levy‘Guo has gender-flipped this intimidating text with bravura and style… Call Me Ishmaelle takes us on a courageous journey: it’s no aping of a classic, rather a vision of a young woman sailing out to discover not a whale but her own self. And in that, it happily succeeds’ Daily Telegraph‘An astonishingly ambitious undertaking . . . you’re in the hands of a genuine storyteller’ New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tales on Market Street","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43491383148750,"sku":"9781529929997","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7727\/4318\/files\/9781529929997.jpg?v=1776348242","url":"https:\/\/top-hatandtales.co.uk\/products\/9781529929997","provider":"Top Hat \u0026 Tales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}