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They're cows, we're pigs
- Title
- They're cows, we're pigs / by Carmen Boullosa ; translated from the Spanish by Leland H. Chambers.
- Author
- Boullosa, Carmen.
- Publication
- New York : Grove Press, 1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Chambers, Leland H., 1928-
- Description
- viii, 180 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- 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. Into this New World of bloody chaos and uncertain possibility steps our hero, Jean Smeeks, who at thirteen was taken from Flanders and brought as a slave to Tortuga, the mythic Treasure Island.
- To his great good fortune, he is initiated into the magic of medicine by le Negre Miel, an African healer, who is poisoned by an unknown assailant, and later by Pineau, a French-born surgeon, who buys Smeeks out of servitude; but he too is violently murdered under mysterious circumstances.
- Grieving for his mentors and uncertain of his own path, Smeeks signs on as a medical officer with the Brethren of the Coast. As he puts his hybrid medical knowledge to use treating everything from rampant disease to the wounds of battle, he becomes strangely transformed by the looting, violence, and carousing of pirate life, and by his desire to avenge the deaths of his teachers.
- Smeeks finds himself both doctor and despoiler, servant and mercenary, native and foreigner, perhaps even male and female, and suspended between two worlds - those of freely roaming and raiding "pigs" and of law-abiding, tradition-bound "cows." Written by one of the preeminent voices of the new generation in Latin American fiction, They're Cows, We're Pigs is a brazenly original evolution of ribald and grotesque excesses, of villainy and honor among thieves.
- Uniform Title
- Son vacas, somos puercos. English
- Alternative Title
- Son vacas, somos puercos.
- ISBN
- 0802116108
- LCCN
- 96040086
- OCLC
- 36029664
- ocm36029664
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries