Plum Rains (Paperback)

Andromeda Romano-Lax

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Soho Press, New York, 2019

1641290250 / 9781641290258

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Paperback. In a tour de force tapestry of science fiction and historical fiction comes a story set in Japan and Taiwan that spans a century of empire, conquest, progress, and destruction, and that elegantly addresses such diverse and important contemporary conversations as immigration, the intersection of labor and technology, the ecological fate of our planet and the future of its children. This is The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane meets Steven Spielberg's AI.In a tour-de-force tapestry of science fiction and historical fiction, Andromeda Romano-Lax presents a story set in Japan and Taiwan that spans a century of empire, conquest, progress, and destruction.2029: In Japan, a historically mono-cultural nation, childbirth rates are at an all-time low and the elderly are living increasingly longer lives. This population crisis has precipitated the mass immigration of foreign medical workers from all over Asia, as well as the development of finely tuned artificial intelligence to step in where humans fall short.In Tokyo, Angelica Navarro, a Filipina nurse who has been in Japan for the last five years, works as caretaker for Sayoko Itou, a moody, secretive woman about to turn 100 years old. One day, Sayoko receives a present: a cutting-edge robot "friend" that will teach itself to anticipate Sayoko's every need. Angelica wonders if she is about to be forced out of her much-needed job by an inanimate object-one with a preternatural ability to uncover the most deeply buried secrets of the humans around it. Meanwhile, Sayoko becomes attached to the machine. The old woman has been hiding secrets of her own for almost a century-and she's too old to want to keep them anymore.What she reveals is a hundred-year saga of forbidden love, hidden identities, and the horrific legacy of WWII and Japanese colonialism-a confession that will tear apart her own life and Angelica's. Is the helper robot the worst thing that could have happened to the two women-or is it forcing the changes they both desperately needed? 2029: In Japan childbirth rates are at a critical low and the elderly are living increasingly long lives and refined artificial intelligence is stepping in where humans fall short. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titolo
Plum Rains (Paperback)
Autore
Andromeda Romano-Lax
Editore
Soho Press, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2019
Condizione
new
Rilegatura
Paperback
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1641290250
ISBN 13
9781641290258

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