The Fat Years

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In Beijing, a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one cares. 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 about their own people - is shocking. Terrifying methods of cunning, deception and terror are unveiled in this thriller-exposé about the Communist Party's stranglehold on China. Zusammenfassung TRUTH IS NOT AN OPTION.... Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Koonchung Chan, Chan Koonchung, Koonchung Chan
• Assisted by: Michael Duke (Translation), Michael S. Duke (Translation), Duke Michael (Translation)
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.08.2012
• EAN: 9780552776974
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77697-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Black Swan
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; China, Science Fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction, Dystopian and utopian fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary