The fat years [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] a novel / Chan Koonchung ; translated from the Chinese by Michael S. Duke ; with a preface by Julia Lovell.
Originally published in Chinese: Hong Kong : Oxford University Press (China) Ltd., 2009, under title: Sheng shi : Zhongguo 2013. 9780193958463
Summary
In near-future Beijing, a month is missing from all official records, mass amnesia has wiped it from collective memory, and people are possessed with an unnatural cheerfulness. A small group of friends will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the mystery.