The fat years
By: Chan Koonchung ; translated from the Chinese by Michael S. Duke ; with a preface by Julia Lovell
Contributors: Duke, Michael S.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: chi
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780385619189
Subjects: Political fiction; Fiction
Work titles: Sheng shi
Description: "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 amessage the will rock the world... "--P.[4] of cover.
Notes: "The notorious thriller they banned in China"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.