The Fat Years

byChan Koonchung, Michael Duke (Translator)

The international sensation: A Chinese 1984

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TRUTH IS NOT AN OPTION....
Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one can 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 has 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 rock the world...
Terrifying methods of cunning, deception and terror are unveiled by the truth-seekers in this thriller-expose of the Communist Party's stranglehold on China today.

A fascinating tale of China just over the horizon

The New Yorker

About Chan Koonchung

Chan Koonchung was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong.

His first novel, the dystopian THE FAT YEARS ('An all-encompassing metaphor for today's looming superpower' Observer) was highly acclaimed and published in thirteen territories.

Chan Koonchung lives in Beijing.
Details
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • ISBN: 9780552776974
  • Length: 320 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 127mm
  • Weight: 220g
  • Price: £15.99
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