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 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.
“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, Chan Koonchung 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)
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