The Fat Years
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Average rating3.3
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Average rating3.3
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.
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This, while thought-provoking on some levels, really didn't pack much punch. The characters discover the mystery of a missing month, and are determined work it out, and yet, the author just kind of has them walk through it, like not much happened. In the end, it IS a very poignant story about mass hysteria and the lengths some governments might be willing to go (or currently ARE implementing) to cover up dirty little secrets that might very well tear down the very fabric of society if citizens were determined enough to face it straight on.
