On such a full sea
Lee, Chang-Rae
On such a full sea / Chang-rae Lee. - New York : Riverhead Books , 2014 - 407 p. ; 21 cm
The story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. 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 neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor 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 labor settlement. 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.
English.
9781594632891
Regression (Civilization)----Fiction
Social stratification ----Fiction
Chinese Americans----Fiction
Dystopias
PS3562.E3347 / O5 2014
FIC LEE
On such a full sea / Chang-rae Lee. - New York : Riverhead Books , 2014 - 407 p. ; 21 cm
The story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. 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 neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor 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 labor settlement. 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.
English.
9781594632891
Regression (Civilization)----Fiction
Social stratification ----Fiction
Chinese Americans----Fiction
Dystopias
PS3562.E3347 / O5 2014
FIC LEE
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