The Fat Years

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Literary, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
Cover of the book The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: Chan Koonchung ISBN: 9780385534352
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: January 10, 2012
Imprint: Anchor Language: English
Author: Chan Koonchung
ISBN: 9780385534352
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: January 10, 2012
Imprint: Anchor
Language: English

Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.
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Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the Chinese nation. When they kidnap a high-ranking official and force him to reveal all, what they learn—not only about their leaders, but also about their own people—stuns them to the core. It is a message that will astound the world.

A kind of Brave New World reflecting the China of our times, The Fat Years is a complex novel of ideas that reveals all too chillingly the machinations of the postmodern totalitarian state, and sets in sharp relief the importance of remembering the past to protect the future.

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Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.
* *
Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the Chinese nation. When they kidnap a high-ranking official and force him to reveal all, what they learn—not only about their leaders, but also about their own people—stuns them to the core. It is a message that will astound the world.

A kind of Brave New World reflecting the China of our times, The Fat Years is a complex novel of ideas that reveals all too chillingly the machinations of the postmodern totalitarian state, and sets in sharp relief the importance of remembering the past to protect the future.

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