{"product_id":"on-such-a-full-sea-9781594632891","title":"On Such a Full Sea","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and \u003ci\u003eOn Such a Full Sea \u003c\/i\u003eprovides all that and more. . . . With \u003ci\u003eOn Such a Full Sea\u003c\/i\u003e,  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, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I've never been a fan of grand hyperbolic declarations in book reviews, but faced with \u003ci\u003eOn Such a Full Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, I have no choice but to ask: Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee today?\"--Porochista Khakpour, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the beloved award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eNative Speaker, The Surrendered\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMy Year Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn Such a Full Sea \u003c\/i\u003etakes 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChang-rae Lee\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eNative Speaker\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Hemingway Foundation\/PEN\/Hemingway Award for first fiction; \u003ci\u003eA Gesture Life\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAloft\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Surren\u003c\/i\u003edered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Selected by \u003ci\u003eThe New Yo\u003c\/i\u003erker as one of the \"20 Writers for the 21st Century,\" Chang-rae Lee is Professor professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University and the a Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649211437330,"sku":"9781594632891","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2e8602b4-49fc-42d0-a104-5ede30bf2472.jpg?v=1733257392","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-such-a-full-sea-9781594632891","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}