The Kitchens of Canton

By Isham Cook

A time-travel novel at once "insightful, unconventional, and risqu?" (Kirkus Reviews) that flings the reader back and forth between Ancient Rome and a Chinese-conquered America.

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0998413356
• ISBN13: 9780998413358
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Isham Cook
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"