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The ordinary seaman

America seen through the eyes of the huddled masses. The hero is Estaban, one of a group of Central Americans brought to New York to crew a tramp ship, only to be abandoned by the ship's owners. When their food runs out Estaban, a former Nicaraguan guerrilla, goes ashore to steal for them. His forays lead him to a Latino neighborhood where he finds work and love. By the author of The Long Night of the White Chickens.

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  • "America seen through the eyes of the huddled masses. The hero is Estaban, one of a group of Central Americans brought to New York to crew a tramp ship, only to be abandoned by the ship's owners. When their food runs out Estaban, a former Nicaraguan guerrilla, goes ashore to steal for them. His forays lead him to a Latino neighborhood where he finds work and love. By the author of The Long Night of the White Chickens."@en
  • "America seen through the eyes of the huddled masses. The hero is Estaban, one of a group of Central Americans brought to New York to crew a tramp ship, only to be abandoned by the ship's owners. When their food runs out Estaban, a former Nicaraguan guerrilla, goes ashore to steal for them. His forays lead him to a Latino neighborhood where he finds work and love. By the author of The Long Night of the White Chickens."
  • "America seen through the eyes of the huddled masses. The hero is Esteban, one of a group of Central Americans brought to New York to crew a tramp ship, only to be abandoned by the ship's owners. When their food runs out Esteban, a former Nicaraguan guerrilla, goes ashore to steal for them. His forays lead him to a Latino neighborhood where he finds work and love. By the author of The Long Night of the White Chickens."@en
  • "The ordinary seaman is Esteban, a nineteen-year-old veteran of the war in Nicaragua who has come to America with fourteen other men to form the crew of the boat Urus. Docked on a desolate Brooklyn pier, the Urus turns out to be a wreck, the men - without the ability to return to their homes - become its prisoners, and the city of New York is transformed into a mysterious and alluring world they cannot penetrate. Esteban, haunted by his dead lover from the war, eventually gathers the courage to escape from the ship and embarks on a quest for a new life and love in the city. The Ordinary Seaman is both a richly human story of abandonment, loss, betrayal, and the power of love and a modern fable about America's hidden immigrant culture."@en
  • "Juin 1989. Venus de plusieurs pays d'Amérique centrale, quinze aventuriers clandestins sont engagés pour convoyer un cargo de New York vers le Costa Rica. Parmi eux, Esteban, 19 ans, qui vient de passer quatre ans dans les rangs de l'armée sandiniste et pour qui le salaire promis constitue l'occasion unique de réussir sa vie. Cependant, le cargo en panne reste à quai."
  • "In een uithoek van de haven van New York ligt een onzeewaardig vrachtschip, bemand door ongeschoolde Midden-Amerikaanse vluchtelingen en in de steek gelaten door malafide reders."

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  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"

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  • "The Ordinary seaman"
  • "The ordinary seaman"@en
  • "The ordinary seaman"
  • "Estebans Traum Roman"
  • "Marinero raso"@es
  • "Marinero raso"
  • "L'equipaggio dimenticato"
  • "L'equipaggio dimenticato"@it
  • "Estebans Traum : Roman"
  • "Le matelot"
  • "Esteban"

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