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- 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.
- Author(s): Carmen Boullosa
- 192 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Historical
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About the Book
"Originally published in 1991 as Son Vacas, Somo Puercos: Filibusteros del Mar Caribe by Ediciones Era, Mexico City"--Title page verso.Book Synopsis
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 Brethren of the Coast. Transformed by the looting and violence of pirate life, Smeeks finds himself both healer and despoiler, servant and mercenary, suspended between the worlds of the law-abiding, tradition-bound "cows" and the freely roaming and raiding "pigs."Dimensions (Overall): 8.25 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .45 Inches (D)
Weight: .54 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 192
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Historical
Publisher: Grove Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Carmen Boullosa
Language: English
Street Date: February 7, 2001
TCIN: 91285504
UPC: 9780802137869
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-8563
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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