{"product_id":"theyre-cows-were-pigs-carmen-boullosa-9780802137869","title":"They're Cows, We're Pigs","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eThey're Cows, We're Pigs, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carmen Boullosa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802137865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802137869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.45d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/18\/2001 pg. 24","brand":"Carmen Boullosa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054509158655,"sku":"9780802137869","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7f38c59d-53a2-4ec1-9eaa-b0195d9498bb.jpg?v=1685030361","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/theyre-cows-were-pigs-carmen-boullosa-9780802137869","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}