Chan Koonchung 
Fat Years [EPUB ebook] 
The international sensation: A Chinese 1984

‘How can a whole nation forget about catastrophe?’LI YUAN, NEW YORK TIMESTRUTH IS NOT AN OPTION…. Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one can 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 has possessed the Chinese 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. It is a message that will rock the world… Terrifying methods of cunning, deception and terror are unveiled by the truth-seekers in this thriller-expose of the Communist Party’s stranglehold on China today.’An all-encompassing metaphor for today’s looming superpower’ OBSERVER