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The Fat Years

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Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one is bothered, 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.

‘A fascinating tale of China just over the horizon’
The New Yorker

‘The hottest novel to come out of China this year’
Time Out Beijing

English PEN works in partnership with The Reading Agency to inspire more people to read more books in translation. By offering PEN supported titles through the Reading Groups for Everyone Initiative we have been able to reach readers around the country and get their feedback on the books we promote. We are very grateful to Transworld Publishers for donating reading group copies of The Fat Years.

Author

Chan Koonchung

Translator

Michael Duke

Published by

Transworld Publishers, 2011
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Read reviews from UK reading groups here

Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one is bothered, 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.

‘A fascinating tale of China just over the horizon’
The New Yorker

‘The hottest novel to come out of China this year’
Time Out Beijing

English PEN works in partnership with The Reading Agency to inspire more people to read more books in translation. By offering PEN supported titles through the Reading Groups for Everyone Initiative we have been able to reach readers around the country and get their feedback on the books we promote. We are very grateful to Transworld Publishers for donating reading group copies of The Fat Years.