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Frog
by Yan Mo
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF 2015
WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize
WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize
In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new novel, Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation's controversial one-child policy.
Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. In her youth, Gugu--the beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Communist--is revered for her skill as a midwife. But when her lover defects, Gugu's own loyalty to the Party is questioned. She decides to prove her allegiance by strictly enforcing the one-child policy, keeping tabs on the number of children in the village, and performing abortions on women as many as eight months pregnant.
In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. At once illuminating and devastating, it shines a light into the heart of communist China.
FictionHistoricalLiteraryPoliticalFamily LifeCultural Heritage
RELEASED2015
PUBLISHERPenguin
LENGTH387
LANGUAGEEN
Chinese author. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."
2.0
Frog
by Yan Mo
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF 2015
WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize
WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize
In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new novel, Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation's controversial one-child policy.
Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. In her youth, Gugu--the beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Communist--is revered for her skill as a midwife. But when her lover defects, Gugu's own loyalty to the Party is questioned. She decides to prove her allegiance by strictly enforcing the one-child policy, keeping tabs on the number of children in the village, and performing abortions on women as many as eight months pregnant.
In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. At once illuminating and devastating, it shines a light into the heart of communist China.
FictionHistoricalLiteraryPoliticalFamily LifeCultural Heritage
RELEASED2015
PUBLISHERPenguin
LENGTH387
LANGUAGEEN
Chinese author. He was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."
