On Such A Full Sea Paperback / softback
by Chang-rae Lee
Paperback / softback
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On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane.
Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee brings us into a world created from scratch.
Against a vividly imagined future America, Lee tells a stunning, surprising, and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in. In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class.
Long-abandoned urban neighbourhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labour colonies. And the members of the labour class-descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China-find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine produce and fish to the small, elite, satellite charter villages that ring the labour settlement. In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once known as Baltimore), when the man she loves mysteriously disappears.
Fan's journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter village, in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:07/05/2015
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- ISBN:9780349140148
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:368 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:07/05/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780349140148