On Such a Full Sea
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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.
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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.
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"Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides all that and more. . . . With On Such a Full Sea , [Chang-rae Lee] has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation: the oft-told tale of the desperate, betraying, lonely human heart."-Andrew Sean Greer, The New York Times Book Review"I've never been a fan of grand hyperbolic declarations in book reviews, but faced with On Such a Full Sea , I have no choice but to ask: Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee today?"-Porochista Khakpour, The Los Angeles Times
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 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.
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
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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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Autoren-Porträt von Chang-rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee, 1965 in Korea geboren, kam 1968 mit seinen Eltern in die USA. Nach dem Studium, u.a. in Yale, arbeitete er ein Jahr als Analyst an der New Yorker Börse. Für seinen ersten Roman "Native Speaker" erhielt er den Hemingway Foundation/Pen Award. Lee lebt als freier Schriftsteller in der Nähe von New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chang-rae Lee
- Altersempfehlung: 12 - 15 Jahre
- 2014, 427 Seiten, Maße: 10,8 x 17,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Callaway
- ISBN-10: 1594633622
- ISBN-13: 9781594633621
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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