The Fat Years

Tse David

ISBN 10: 0307742822 / ISBN 13: 9780307742827

Published by Random House, 2013

About this Item

pp. 336.

Seller Inventory # 49825396

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Fat Years
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307742822
• ISBN 13: 9780307742827
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

An entire month has gone missing from Chinese records. No one has any memory of it, and no one seems to care 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 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.
 
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 in order to protect the future.

About the Author

CHAN KOONCHUNG is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. Born in Shanghai and raised and educated in Hong Kong, he studied at the University of Hong Kong and Boston University. He has published more than a dozen Chinese-language books and in 1976 founded the monthly magazine City in Hong Kong, of which he was the chief editor and then publisher for twenty-three years. He has been a producer on more than thirteen films. Chan Koonchung now lives in Beijing.