The Fat Years

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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.

Critics Review

  • A fascinating tale of China just over the horizon

    The New Yorker

  • A thought-provoking novel about China’s tomorrow, which reveals the truth about China today

    Xinran, author of The Good Women of China

  • The Fat Years remains valid because it is not simply a “what might happen” exercise in futurism. Its central conceit – that collective amnesia overtakes the entire country – is an all-encompassing metaphor for today’s looming superpower… a triumph

    Observer

  • A not-so-veiled satire of the Chinese government’s tendency to make dates such as the Tiananmen massacre virtually disappear

    Financial Times

  • Chan Koonchung’s humorous tale reveals the distorted reality of China, where despite the supersonic development of its economy, political life is steadfastly unchanging

    Ma Jian

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