On Such A Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee

On Such A Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee

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.

Engrossing * Financial Times *
Complex and imaginative. . You'll be drawn into Chang-rae Lee's depiction of a ruined America, and its systems of class and power that feel alien yet all too recognizable. * Buzzfeed *

Chang-rae Lee is the author of the bestselling novel Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/Pen award and The Surrendered. He teaches at Princeton University.

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ISBN 13	9780349140148
ISBN 10	0349140146
Title	On Such A Full Sea
Author	Chang-Rae Lee
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2015-05-07
Number of pages	368
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