num_pages: 320
description: 'How can a whole nation forget about catastrophe?'LI YUAN NEW YORK TIMESTRUTH 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.'An all-encompassing metaphor for today's looming superpower' OBSERVER
language: English
title: The Fat Years
publisher: Random House Publishing Group