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They're Cows, We're Pigs
They're Cows, We're Pigs
They're Cows, We're Pigs
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They're Cows, We're Pigs

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A dark, thought-provoking adventure that “artfully evokes the blood-soaked reality of 17th-century pirates” (Entertainment Weekly).

This “wryly humorous, satiric, and often macabre novel” (Library Journal) follows Jean Smeeks, a Flemish thirteen-year-old who signs up as an indentured servant with the French West Indies Company, but instead winds up a slave on the notorious island of Tortuga. Over time, he learns the arts of herbal medicine and surgery—a skill that allows him to join a band of Caribbean pirates. Contrasting Jean’s romantic pull toward the “Brethren of the Coast”—an all-male society pursuing socialist, anti-colonialist ideals—with the brutal reality of their lawless existence, They’re Cows, We’re Pigs is a “unique and memorable” novel whose “pirate world leaves you as a good book should: thinking” (The Boston Herald).
LanguageEnglish
Release dateDec 1, 2007
ISBN9781555846039
They're Cows, We're Pigs
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Carmen Boullosa

Carmen Boullosa (Ciudad de México, 1954), becaria de la Fundación Guggenheim, del Center for Scholars and Writers de la New York Public Library y profesora en diversas universidades estadounidenses, forma parte del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de México. Su obra ha sido merecedora de múltiples galardones, como el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, el LiBeraturpreis de la Ciudad de Frankfurt, el Anna Seghers de la Academia de las Artes de Berlín y el Premio de Novela Café Gijón.

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