The Fat Years

A Novel

De: Chan Koonchung

Narrado por: David Tse

Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.

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

A kind of Brave New World reflecting the China of our times, The Fat Years is a complex novel of ideas that reveals all too chillingly the machinations of the postmodern totalitarian state, and sets in sharp relief the importance of remembering the past to protect the future.

From the Hardcover edition.

©2011 Koonchung Chan (P)2011 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Part political thriller, part dystopian nightmare... Koonchung reveals the moral and political perils of contemporary Chinese life." ( Publishers Weekly)

"In conjuring China’s very near future, Chan Koonchung has given us a bracingly honest portrait of the present. He captures all the flamboyant paradoxes of daily life in China on the cusp of empire, but is also awake to its submerged anxieties. His writing is steeped in humor and fantasy, but his project could not be more serious: The struggle over the soul of a nation." (Evan Osnos, Beijing correspondent, The New Yorker)

“What happens when 1.3 billion Chinese are all very happy? The Fat Years is suspenseful, hilarious, intelligent, and dark - a powerful novel. Anyone interested in learning about the current state and future of China should read this novel.” (Shu-mei Shih, University of California, Los Angeles)

Brilliant Novel!!!

Chan Koonchung illuminates contemporary China by contrasting the profoundly idealists figures with the pragmatic aims of the Chinese state and communist party. As the author argues, this novel is not dystopian fiction, but it starkly reveal the dark political, social and economic realities of capitalism without the rule of law.

Eye-opening

I really loved this book way more than I thought. The content is superb and the reading was exquisite.