The Fat Years

01 June 2011
ECHOSTREAM
ECHOSTREAM

What happens when a whole month goes missing and no one notices? Old Chen, a Taiwanese writer living the perfect 2013 Beijing life, is forced to confront the reality of four missing weeks two years ago when old friends resurface. In this early look at The Fat Years, the dystopian novel mainland China will never publish, here is today's China by one of its own.

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TWO YEARS FROM NOW

Chan Koonchung is the author of several works of nonfiction, a novel and short stories. He was editor-in-chief and then publisher of City magazine for 23 years.

Keywords: fiction
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