A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
"Mo Yan's voice will find it's way into the heart of the American
reader, just as Kundera and Garcia Marquez have." -Amy Tan author
of The Joy Luck Club From the Nobel-prize winning author of Red
Sorghum and one China's most revered writers, a novel exploring the
One-Child Policy Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator
Tadpole's feisty aunt, is a respected midwife in her rural
community. She combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's
touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. Gugu is
beautiful, charismatic, and of an unimpeachable political
background. 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 society will be read for generations to come.
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