The Fat Years

The Fat Years

( Chinese -Shengshi: Zhongguo 2013 / 盛世 中國 2013年 - 2009 )

novel by Chan Koonchung

translated by Michael A. Duke

Published: Doubleday - trade paperback - 2011 ( UK )
ISBN: 0385619189 / 9780385619189

Random House Audiobooks - audiobook - 2011
ASIN: B005HITXD0

Transworld Digital ( Amazon ) - Kindle - 2011
ASIN: B00563M1BW

Black Swan - paperback - 2012 ( UK )
ISBN: 0552776971 / 9780552776974

Nan A. Talese ( Doubleday / Random House ) - hardback - 2012 ( US )
ISBN: 0385534345 / 9780385534345

Nan A. Talese ( Doubleday / Random House ) - e-book - 2012 ( US )
eISBN: 9780385534352 ( also ID for Nook )

Anchor Books - paperback - 2013 ( US )
ISBN: 0307742822 / 9780307742827


synopsis
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…

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