Jonathan Mirsky

Ignorance is bliss

This novel frightened me several times. Here is how Chan Koonchung, brought up in Hong Kong but now living in Beijing, does it. He sets the story in a very near future, 2013, that closely resembles China today, but with two creepy additional elements: an entire month, during 2011, has vanished from most written records, and almost everyone feels happy all the time

  • The Fat Years

    Chan Koonchung, translated by Michael S. Duke, introduced by Julia Lovell

    Doubleday, pp. 307

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