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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Frog
• Author: Mo Yan
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780241967324
• ISBN: 0241967325
• ID: 09223477
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Weight: 286 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 131 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. July 2015

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