On such a full sea [sound recording] / Chang-rae Lee.
"From the beloved award-winning author of 'Native Speaker' and 'The Surrendered', a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. '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 avividly 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. 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."--Publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781611762211
- Physical Description: 10 compact discs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 12 cm.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Audio, p2014.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by B.D. Wong. |
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Subject: | Regression (Civilization) > Fiction. Social stratification > Fiction. Chinese Americans > Fiction. |
Genre: | Literary fiction. Futuristic fiction. Science fiction. Dystopias. Adult books on CD. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Sitka.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Castlegar Public Library | CD FIC LEE (Text) | 35146001851500 | CD Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"From the beloved award-winning author of 'Native Speaker' and 'The Surrendered', a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. '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 avividly 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. 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."--Publisher.