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. 'Mo Yan deserves a place in world literature.
His voice will find its way into the heart of the reader, just as
Kundera and Garcia Marquez have' Amy Tan 'One of China's leading
writers . . . his work rings with refreshing authenticity' Time
'His idiom has the spiralling invention of much world literature of
a high order, from Vargas Llosa to Rushdie'Observer Translated by
Howard Goldblatt
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