On Such A Full Sea - Couverture souple

Lee, Chang-Rae

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1408705478 ISBN 13 : 9781408705476

Editeur : Little, Brown, 2014

Synopsis

Lithe and tiny, Fan is a diver at the New China settlement of B-Mor, a worker colony long-ago known as Baltimore, her circumscribed world the temperature-controlled fish tanks that feed a contaminated continent, and Reg, the golden-skinned, simple-hearted man she loves. Rigorously pressurised and demarcated, the dystopian America Fan serves is ruled by the professional Charter caste. While B-Mors are obedient and tranquillised by duty and the fear of chaos, the pampered, ruthless Charters inhabit idyllic, over-supplied communities behind whose gates they jostle ceaselessly for dominance. Estranged from nature, B-Mors and Charters alike shy from the spaces between, where 'counties' people - outcasts, free-thinkers and renegades, bandits and pedlars - forage and grub and steal and kill. One quiet day Reg is removed from the colony - whether for a nameless infraction, or because he is disease-resistant in a world where no one is C-free, it is impossible to say. Fan decides she must follow. But her departure threatens to disrupt the whole order of B-Mor society, and only savage action can hold it together.
A mesmerising narrative of courage and longing, On Such a Full Sea is an epic tale: brilliantly speculative, absolutely involving and profoundly humane.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Chang-Rae Lee is the author of the bestselling novels The Surrendered and Native Speaker, which won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award. He teaches at Princeton University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1408705478
• ISBN 13: 9781408705476
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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