Frog
Mo, Yan, 1955-2015
Book
'Frog' is a richly complex novel about China's one-child policy. 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 sterilisations 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.
Main title:
Frog / Mo Yan ; translated from the original Chinese by Howard Goldblatt.
Author:
Mo, Yan, 1955-, authorGoldblatt, Howard, 1939-, translator
Work:
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2015.UK : Penguin Books, 2015.
Collation:
387 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Chinese.Originally published: Australia: Penguin Group, 2014.
ISBN:
9780241967324 (pbk)
Dewey class:
895.136FICTIONF
Language:
EnglishChinese
BRN:
1744501