The Fat Years: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (821 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385534345 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. . 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 been a producer on more than thi
M. JEFFREY MCMAHON said Works Better As a Philosophical Novel of Ideas Than As a Compelling Narrative. In the translator's note, The Fat Years is described as China's version of the Brave New World and he points out that Chinese intellectuals are telling him this novel captures their zeitgeist more than anything else.As for the plot, a group of Chinese intellectuals slowly uncover a huge Chinese conspiracy, a period of "Works Better As a Philosophical Novel of Ideas Than As a Compelling Narrative" according to M. JEFFREY MCMAHON. In the translator's note, The Fat Years is described as China's version of the Brave New World and he points out that Chinese intellectuals are telling him this novel captures their zeitgeist more than anything else.As for the plot, a group of Chinese intellectuals slowly uncover a huge Chinese conspiracy, a period of 28 days in which the Chinese people forget every. 8 days in which the Chinese people forget every. "just a bit lost in translation" according to Brett Farrell. Having self interupted a Jane Austen reading spree I was in the midst of for this book it was a little difficult to get into this book with its very simplistic style but after a while I was able to adjust. Thankfully there will be no problems resuming my Austen reading spree.This novel doesn't meet your typical expectations of a novel. The plot is simple, there is l. Roy Clark said NONFICTION WITH A LITERARY TWIST. THE FAT YEARS hit me with one insight after another, shifting from one format/style to another. It deserves all the global buzz it's gotten. The 'Banned in China' promo ploy may or may not be true; it pertains to much within TFY's covers. But at the end there is a 'Translator's Footnote's' section which seems to validate its points one by one. This book offers far m
From Booklist Banned 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 Beijing, 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. A long, highly theoretical dissection of China’s politics and economy closes the book, a
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. 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. 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. 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.