{"product_id":"2940169321784","title":"On Such a Full Sea: A Novel","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the beloved award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eNative Speaker \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Surrendered\u003c\/i\u003e, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104450986224,"sku":"2940169321784","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169321784_p0.jpg?v=1769894880","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169321784","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}