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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Excellence limited by extensive required background in Chinese history and culture.By Meng MaoVery compelling reading for someone who's lived in modern and has seen how the Communist Party has endured the changes and progress sweeping through. If the reader lacks this kind of background, I think he wouldn't get all the cries of "this is so real!" that this book generates.I'm reading the translation. Without comparing to the original text, I can't say for sure where some of the clunkiness in the dialog comes from. Obviously it's not easy to translate Chinese idiom and mannerisms into English, but I didn't really feel it here.The reveal is hinted at from a mile away and is actually much more minor than one is led to expect, which makes for a somewhat disappointing final act.9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Unfortunately it is no 1984By Kevin KwokWanted to like this book badly. Came in expecting it to be a Chinese version of 1984 in many respects. The political statements may be interesting enough, but they aren't packaged well in a plot. The book is hard to read and the plot really does not capture the reader and is disjointed.The strength of books like 1984 is to use its plot as a vehicle to make the reader really question a current issue in a way they haven't before and wouldn't if directly argued with. The Fat Years fails at this, which is a shame because the question of what a society should be willing to allow for the sake of economic prosperity doesn't get the spotlight it deserves.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Good insight into modern ChinaBy jay swartzGood insight into modern China presented in a somewhat simplistic but well written way. I would recommend it to those like me who do not have a detailed understanding of the polical and economic forces dring the transformation of China and its emergence as a world power.

An entire month has gone missing from Chinese records. No one has any memory of it, and no one seems to care 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 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. 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.

From BooklistBanned in China but sought after, read, and commented on in pirated online versions, Koonchung’s first novel to be translated into English is a novel of ideas in which the principal idea is: what’s wrong with not having any? Set mainly in , the novel gives us China after a second global financial crisis: the economy is booming, the population is complacent, and the country appears destined to achieve world domination. Everyone seems to have forgotten a month of civil unrest and a vicious state-sponsored crackdown, as if the population awoke from the nightmare of history and found it so implausible that they forgot or dismissed it. We are treated to characters from a cross-section of society, a love story, and the trappings of a thriller. A long, highly theoretical dissection of China’s politics and economy closes the book, and will undoubtedly try the patience of people reading strictly for pleasure. Then again, that may be the novel’s purpose: boring economic minutiae may well require our urgent attention. -- Michael Autrey “An uncommon novel…. With its offbeat puzzle and diverting characters … Chan’s story is not only absorbing in its own right, it also shines reflected light on the foibles of the West.” —The New York Times “Smart, incendiary. . . . Although The Fat Years clearly owes a debt to Brave New World, Chan’s characters are infinitely more believable, and drawn with a real sense of sympathy and understanding.” —Michael Schaub, NPR “A cunning caricature of modern China.” —Los Angeles Times “It’s no wonder that the insecure Chinese authorities have banned this book in China itself. It tells stunning truths that those authorities strive hard to keep under the rug, and it tells them with a literary flair worthy of Orwell.” —Richard Bernstein, author of The Coming Conflict with China “In conjuring China’s very near future, has given us a bracingly honest portrait of the present.” —The New Yorker “A not-so-veiled satire of the Chinese government’s tendency to make dates such as the Tiananmen massacre of June 4 1989 virtually disappear from the country’s history.” —Financial Times “Inventive and highly topical.” —The Wall Street Journal “An audacious view of a counterfeit paradise. . . . This novel isn’t only essential reading, it is also urgent.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto) “To touch on so many issues . . . in such a compelling narrative is a triumph, abetted by an excellent translation by Michael Duke.” —The Guardian (London) “A thought- provoking novel about China’s tomorrow that reveals the truth about China today.” —Xinran, author of The Good Women of China “The Fat Years presents a vivid, intelligent and disturbing picture of the world’s emerging super- power.” —The Spectator “Eerily prescient. . . A gripping . . . treatise on the rise of China, present and future.” —Toronto Star“Bracing, smart and entertaining.” —The Independent (London) “Hardly a thriller in the conventional sense of the word but a lot more scary than most.” —The Times (London)About the AuthorCHAN KOONCHUNG is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. Born in and raised and educated in , he studied at the and Boston University. He has published more than a dozen Chinese-language books and in 1976 founded the monthly magazine City in Hong Kong, of which he was the chief editor and then publisher for twenty-three years. He has been a producer on more than thirteen films. Chan Koonchung now lives in Beijing.

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