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 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.
0 有用 庄常飞 2015-03-23 11:07:52
4.5星,Chang Rae Lee的弱点搬到科幻世界刚刚好,结尾略有点弱
0 有用 KingKongdaisy 2014-05-30 13:54:32
Chaotic and dystopian
0 有用 伯德兰 2018-07-24 17:43:09
在斯坦福工作的Lee对硅谷精英圈的上层生活是有不少一手了解的。
0 有用 沈青雨🪐 2018-06-10 21:13:28
呵呵呵呵呵…怎么说呢……读这本最大的意义就是激励我要为了以后不需要读灾难文学而发愤图强……
0 有用 布丁本丁 2022-03-03 23:26:20
可以当作科幻公路文来看,Fan表面在追随Reg,但更深层次却是在逃离B-Mor。几次离奇却又无比现实的经历让人不得不联想到品钦的entropy,不管开端或是表面显现得多么安宁,世界总会归于混乱与未知。
0 有用 布丁本丁 2022-03-03 23:26:20
可以当作科幻公路文来看,Fan表面在追随Reg,但更深层次却是在逃离B-Mor。几次离奇却又无比现实的经历让人不得不联想到品钦的entropy,不管开端或是表面显现得多么安宁,世界总会归于混乱与未知。
0 有用 gracenk2011 2022-01-15 10:14:31
dsytopian novel, first plural narrative, his thought about climate catastrophe and dealy disease. conflict about personal interests and ethics
0 有用 颐和Boxer 2021-09-27 22:13:17
亚裔的集体无意识就是儒家思想,就好比原型批评,你总能从李昌来的故事中找到孔孟的原文
0 有用 伯德兰 2018-07-24 17:43:09
在斯坦福工作的Lee对硅谷精英圈的上层生活是有不少一手了解的。
0 有用 沈青雨🪐 2018-06-10 21:13:28
呵呵呵呵呵…怎么说呢……读这本最大的意义就是激励我要为了以后不需要读灾难文学而发愤图强……