The Kitchens of Canton
The Kitchens of Canton
Author: Isham Cook
Desc: Jeff Malmquist is unaccountably catapulted to the year 2060. He finds himself in New Gary Indiana a labor camp of one million Chicagoans their identities hacked and incriminated as pedophiles through the collusion of a corrupt US Government the Russian cybermafia and China. He escapes to Chicago only to find himself in a full-scale replica of Ancient Rome in China erected for the wealthy country’s amusement and manned by a million enslaved Italians. As he struggles to orient himself in these synchronized urban labyrinths he is plunged back to real Ancient Rome before being flung yet further into the future: It’s 2115 and the Chinese Empire rules the world. The former Western hemisphere is now the American Special Administrative Region a vast Cantonese-speaking slave colony. Malmquist will soon be shipped to the most opulent city the world has ever known for an unspeakable fate. A dystopian satire both bleak and funny The Kitchens of Canton distills the worst of our present and future societies into a strangely seductive maze of a story.