Ship Breaker

9 hrs. 13 min.

Language Russian

Author Paolo Bacigalupi

Narrator Igor Knyazev

A striking picture of the future, full of contrasts: resources are exhausted, cities are dead, the gulf between starving savages and well-off owners of new technologies is impossible to cross. At the cost of exhausting labor, stubbornness, betrayal, and luck on the flooded shores of the Gulf of Mexico, teenagers must break out of “the bottom” and survive. In abandoned oil tankers, they добывают colored metals, they risk their lives, dream, grow up. And in the best traditions of adventure stories and coming-of-age novels, they choose between feeling—and reason—between noble, “right” actions—and momentary profit.

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