Chan Koonchung es un aclamado autor chino, conocido por sus obras distópicas y satíricas. Su escritura explora agudamente los problemas sociales y políticos contemporáneos, a menudo con un toque futurista. Chan profundiza en las complejas relaciones entre culturas y estructuras de poder, basándose en su amplia experiencia viviendo en diversos entornos. Sus narrativas obligan a los lectores a reflexionar sobre la trayectoria de la sociedad moderna y sus implicaciones.
Life is simple for Champa. He has a good job as a chauffeur in his hometown of Lhasa, and if his Chinese boss Plum is a little domineering, well, he can understand that - she's a serious art-collector after all. And he does get to drive her huge Toyota. When he starts to sleep with his boss, life becomes a whole lot more complicated.
"Truth 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 amessage the will rock the world... "--P.[4] of cover.