Frog

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Author: Mo Yan (Author)Howard Goldblatt (Translator) 
ISBN: 9780241967324
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group

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Frog is a richly complex new novel about China’s one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.

Gugu is beautiful, charismatic and of an unimpeachable political background. A respected midwife, she combines modern medical knowledge with a healer’s touch to save the lives of village women and their babies.

After a disastrous love affair with a defector leaves Gugu reeling, she throws herself zealously into enforcing China’s draconian new family-planning policy by any means necessary, be it forced sterilizations or late-term abortions. Tragically, her blind devotion to the Party line spares no one, not her own family, not even herself.

Once beloved, Gugu becomes the living incarnation of a reviled social policy violently at odds with deeply-rooted social values. Spanning the pre-revolutionary era and the country’s modern-day consumer society, Mo Yan’s taut and engrossing examination of Chinese life will be read for generations to come.

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Author

Mo Yan

Publisher

Penguin Group