They're Cows, We're Pigs (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)

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."

General

Imprint:	Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2001
First published:	February 2001
Authors:	Carmen Boullosa
Translators:	Leland H Chambers
Dimensions:	209 x 139 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
Edition:	1st pbk. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-3786-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General
LSN:	0-8021-3786-5
Barcode:	9780802137869

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