The Ordinary Seaman

Fiction & Literature, Historical, Literary
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Author: Francisco Goldman ISBN: 9781555846404
Publisher: Grove Atlantic Publication: December 1, 2007
Imprint: Grove Press Language: English
Author: Francisco Goldman
ISBN: 9781555846404
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Publication: December 1, 2007
Imprint: Grove Press
Language: English

By the author of The Long Night of White Chickens: A novel of the perils, passions, and adventures of a young Nicaraguan immigrant trapped in Brooklyn.
 
Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsday*, the* Los Angeles Times Book Review*, the* Chicago Tribune*, the* St. Louis Post-Dispatch*, and* Publishers Weekly
 
In the late 1980s, teenage Sandinista soldier and avowed communist Esteban Gaitán leaves Nicaragua to begin a new life in America. He soon arrives on a desolate Brooklyn pier with fourteen other men to form the crew of the ship Urus.
 
Elias and Mark, the owners of the Urus, hold the men captive, forcing them to work in a vain attempt to make the rotting vessel seaworthy. Without the means to return home, Esteban remains a virtual prisoner, haunted by the loss of the woman he loved during the war. Eventually learning how to sneak off the ship, he makes nocturnal forays into Brooklyn, where he meets a Mexican immigrant named Joaquina, and begins to plot his permanent escape.
 
Centering his novel around Esteban, but also telling the stories of his fellow landlocked sailors, Francisco Goldman proves once again that he is “a major talent of great style and soul” (The Miami Herald).
 
“Often very funny . . . Here, a corner of Brooklyn becomes the exotic and foreign experience, and through Esteban’s eyes it is as mysterious and alluring as Tangiers.” —The Dallas Morning News

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By the author of The Long Night of White Chickens: A novel of the perils, passions, and adventures of a young Nicaraguan immigrant trapped in Brooklyn.
 
Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsday*, the* Los Angeles Times Book Review*, the* Chicago Tribune*, the* St. Louis Post-Dispatch*, and* Publishers Weekly
 
In the late 1980s, teenage Sandinista soldier and avowed communist Esteban Gaitán leaves Nicaragua to begin a new life in America. He soon arrives on a desolate Brooklyn pier with fourteen other men to form the crew of the ship Urus.
 
Elias and Mark, the owners of the Urus, hold the men captive, forcing them to work in a vain attempt to make the rotting vessel seaworthy. Without the means to return home, Esteban remains a virtual prisoner, haunted by the loss of the woman he loved during the war. Eventually learning how to sneak off the ship, he makes nocturnal forays into Brooklyn, where he meets a Mexican immigrant named Joaquina, and begins to plot his permanent escape.
 
Centering his novel around Esteban, but also telling the stories of his fellow landlocked sailors, Francisco Goldman proves once again that he is “a major talent of great style and soul” (The Miami Herald).
 
“Often very funny . . . Here, a corner of Brooklyn becomes the exotic and foreign experience, and through Esteban’s eyes it is as mysterious and alluring as Tangiers.” —The Dallas Morning News

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