The Fat Years
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385619189 (0385619189)
Publish date: July 21st 2011
Publisher: Doubleday
Pages no: 318
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Mystery,
Politics,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Dystopia,
China
blurb - Narrated by David TseBanned 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, an...
It had an interesting premise - a whole month disappears in the lives of people in China. What happened to it - unfortunately something was lost in the translation to English. Nevertheless intriguing and of course with faint references to 1984.