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The Fat Years

By: Chan Koonchung
Narrated by: David Tse
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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 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.

©2011 Chan Koonchung (P)2011 Random House Audio Go Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Fiction China Socialism

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I wonder how much is lost in translation and how differently a Chinese reader would experience the book to me as a westerner.

heavy going but an interesting read

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