Ship Breaker
On a coast devastated by rising seas, Nailer works ship-breaker crews and is forced into flight and hard choices after meeting the wealthy Nita. In a world of resource scarcity, the novel asks what courage looks like when survival is all that remains.
Work Information
On a broken future coast, a boy runs to survive.
On a coast devastated by rising seas, Nailer works ship-breaker crews and is forced into flight and hard choices after meeting the wealthy Nita. In a world of resource scarcity, the novel asks what courage looks like when survival is all that remains. The story follows young people caught between personal choice and pressure from the world around them, with quiet but sustained tension.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 2010-05-01
- Pages
- 336 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.92 x 3.18 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780316056212
- ISBN-10
- 0316056219
- Price
- 1538 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Teen & Young Adult
This thrilling bestseller and National Book Award Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties, set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change. In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life.... In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels The Drowned Cities and Tool of War . "Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with The Hunger Games ...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines." -- Los Angeles Times A New York Times Bestseller A Michael L. Printz Award Winner A National Book Award Finalist A VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Book A Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book
Paolo Bacigalupi is the author of the highly acclaimed The Drowned Cities , Tool of War , and Ship Breaker , a New York Times bestseller, Michael L. Printz Award winner, and National Book Award finalist. He is also the author of the Edgar Awards nominee The Doubt Factory; a novel for younger readers, Zombie Baseball Beatdown; and two bestselling adult novels for adults, The Water Knife and The Windup Girl. His first work of collected short fiction was Pump Six and Other Stories . He co-wrote The Tangled Lands with Tobias S. Buckell. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, John W. Campbell Memorial, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Awards, he lives in western Colorado with his wife and son. The author invites you to visit his website at windupstories.com.
Reviews
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Good book
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Having bought the first two boooks by Bacigalupi, I ordered this immediately it became available on Amazon.His first book,Pump Six, is a powerful collection of science fiction stories,many of them based around a dystopian future.His second book, The Windup Girl, also takes place in a dystopian future. The setting for this new novel is the same kind of future with global warming,powerful multinational corporations,augmented humans,and massive differences between the rich and poor.The novel is what is termed as Young Adult fiction (YA) and is aimed at the younger market,but dont let this stop the older people amongst us (I am 54) from reading and enjoying it. I found the story and characters fascinating. The novel moves nicely with moments of tension,action,plot and character development. I feel the core of the novel is how Bacigalupi addresses the issues of trust,loyalty,love and family. For me this is another success from a writer who is producing some very strong fiction and I hope he continues to do so.
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Come per la ragazza meccanica, questo libro parla di un futuro dispotico decisamente fin troppo probabile. Il primo libro della trilogia (questo), l'unico che ho letto, potrebbe persino essere interessante per ragazzi (diciamo meglio se cresciutelki, alcuni contenuti sono abbastanza crudi, ma non più di quelli di televisione e videogiochi). E' una bella storia, di coraggio e resistenza, e anche di speranza per il futuro e di ingegno, in un mondo futuro ben costruito. Vale sicuramente la pena. Non vi dico la storia, tanto basta leggere la sinossi e non vorrei fare spoiler. PS io lo ho letto in inglese, preferisco, ma immagino che si sia anche in italiano.
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This author has the knack of building a world and filling it with cool and interesting characters. I really like
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My class liked the contrast between helpfulness/teamwork of some characters with the self-interest of the other characters. Nailer’s courage was admirable, and we liked how nobly the lower-classes were portrayed.