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ID: 344642
Title: Waste Tide
Author: Chen Qiufan
Narrator: Ewan Chung
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12:08:29
Language: English
Release date: 04-30-19
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Apocalyptic & Dystopian
Summary:
A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
Award-winning author Chen Qiufan's Waste Tide is a thought-provoking future vision of how climate change affects the world.
Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking listeners.
Mimi is a 'waste girl. A member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle, located off Chinas southeastern coast, and home to the worlds largest electronic waste recycling center. There, thousands of miles from home, Mimi struggles to earn a living for her family and dreams of a better life.
Luo Jincheng is the head of one of three clans who run the island, a role passed down from his father and grandfather before him. As the government enforces tighter restrictions, Luo in turn tightens the reins on the waste workers in his employ. Ruthlessness is his means of survival.
Scott Brandle has come to Silicon Isle representing TerraGreen Recycling, an American corporation that stands to earn ungodly sums if they can reach a deal to modernize the islands recycling process.
Chen Kaizong, a Chinese American, travels to Silicon Isle as Scotts interpreter. There, Kaizong is hoping to find his heritage, but finds only more questions. The home he longs for may not exist.
As these forces collide, a dark futuristic virus is unleashed on the island. Against the backdrop of a gritty near-future Chinese landscape, in a world of body modifications and virtual reality, a war erupts -- between the rich and the poor; between ancient traditions and modern ambition; between humanitys past and its future.
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