The Fat Years - Koonchung, Chan

Paperback. English. Transworld Publishers. 2011. In good condition.

Set in 2013, this futuristic thriller tells of Chen, a writer obsessed with detective stories, who togehter with a quirky group of dissidents, set out to uncover the events in a month in recent Chinese history that is mysteriously missing from official records. When a government official is kidnapped, they disover that the water supply has been laced with a variant of ecstasy to keep the people happy. A plausible dystopia that stokes Western phobias about the emergence of the Asian Tiger, this novel is an excoriating look at the information controlled reality of China today.