Ebook {Epub PDF} The Fat Years: A Novel by Chan Koonchung

 · The Fat Years is the story of Taiwan-born writer Lo Chen who, one day, sees an old female friend, an ex-judge and now career activist Little Xi, who doesn't seem to be as happy as he is. Because everyone in Beijing is very happy/5().  · 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 in order to protect the future. Related collections and offers. Product Details. About the ISBN  · That's at the heart of The Fat Years, a novel of speculative fiction set in China that begins with the mystery of a missing month that coincided with the global economic crash of In a mere 28 days, the country of billion goes through economic panic and violent upheaval but emerges reinvented and en route to a new reality where its people are happy and prosperous/5.

THE FAT YEARS. A dystopian portrait of China in , where the populace is both muzzled and soothed by state-controlled capitalism. As the introduction to this intriguing if often plodding novel explains, the book is not officially sold in China, presumably because authorities find its criticism of Communist leadership too provocative. CHAN KOONCHUNG is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. Born in Shanghai and raised and educated in Hong Kong, he studied at the University of Hong Kong and Boston University. He has published more than a dozen Chinese-language books and in founded the monthly magazine City in Hong Kong, of which he was the chief editor and then. In The Fat Years, possibly the most audacious book to have been published by a Chinese author not living in exile since Lu Xun excoriated the atrophied Confucianism of the early 20th century, the.

The Fat Years. A Novel. Chan Koonchung, translated from the Chinese by Michael S. Duke. Nan A. Talese/Doubleday: pp., $ The Fat Years is a Chinese science fiction novel written by Chan Koonchung. First published in traditional Chinese versions in in both Hong Kong by Oxford University Press and also in Taiwan by the Rye Field Publishing Company under the title 'Prosperous Age: China in the year ', to date it has never been published in mainland China. The Fat Years is the story of Taiwan-born writer Lo Chen who, one day, sees an old female friend, an ex-judge and now career activist Little Xi, who doesn't seem to be as happy as he is. Because everyone in Beijing is very happy.