Moby Dick Jojo Moyes makes strong the weak /

makes strong the weak / And (wond’rous instinct) Ethiopians speak

Sir Simon de Canterville

When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home

and philosophical rants about colonial trauma and Frantz Fanon

The book centres on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov

Moby Dick Jojo Moyes makes strong the weak /So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with