Jim Crace
Don DeLillo
Francisco Goldman
Ian McEwan
Andrew Miller
Haruki Murakami
Cynthia Ozick
Bernhard Schlink

The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman

ISBN: 080213548X (USA); 0571191010 (UK)

Web Links
Find out more about Francisco Goldman and his books on these sites:
A biographical note on Francisco Goldman
The PEN/Faulkner Awards page
A review of the Ordinary Seaman from Literascape.com
A review of the Ordinary Seaman in the Independent (London)

The Ordinary Seaman is a lyrical and spellbinding story of hope, despair, and the promise of love. Esteban, a nineteen-year-old veteran of the war in Nicaragua, has come to America with fourteen other men to form the crew of the Urus. Docked on a desolate Brooklyn pier, the Urus is a wreck and the men its prisoners. Esteban, haunted by the loss of his first love in the war, escapes from the ship to start a new life in the city.

Francisco Goldman was raised in Boston and Guatemala and divides his time between New York City and Mexico. The Ordinary Seaman is his second novel.

Other books by Francisco Goldman:
The Long Night of White Chickens (0571160980) 1993