Call Me Ishmaelle

<p><b>‘A smart gender-flipped version of <i>Moby Dick</i>’ <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><Br><b>‘A clever and original skewering of a classic’ <i>i News</i></b><Br><b>‘A brilliantly written reordering of <i>Moby-Dick’ </i>Philip Hoare</b><Br><Br><b><i>Call Me Ishmaelle</i> reimagines the epic battle between man and nature in Herman Melville’s <i>Moby Dick </i>from a female perspective – perfect for fans Madeline Miller, Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver</b></p><p>In 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.<Br><Br>As 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…<Br><Br><b>‘One of the most valuable writers in the world’ Deborah Levy</b></p><p><b>‘Guo has gender-flipped this intimidating text with bravura and style… <i>Call Me Ishmaelle </i>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’ <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b></p><p><b>‘An astonishingly ambitious undertaking . . . you’re in the hands of a genuine storyteller’ <i>New York Times Book Review</i></b></p>