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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.
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Frog, Yan Mo, Howard Goldblatt
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- Released
- 2015
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- Title
- Frog
- Subtitle
- A Novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Yan Mo, Howard Goldblatt
- Publisher
- Viking
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN10
- 0525427988
- ISBN13
- 9780525427988
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Family, Politics, Military Fiction, Wars, Children, Society, Asia, China, Fight, Nobel prize, Revolution, Chinese Literature, Abortion
- Original title
- Wa
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- 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.