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In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan’s position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new novel, 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.
In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. At once illuminating and devastating, it shines a light into the heart of communist China.
- Mo Yan - Author
- Howard Goldblatt - Translator
- Graeme Malcolm - Narrator
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781101889633
- File size: 333412 KB
- Release date: January 22, 2015
- Duration: 11:34:36
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9781101889633
- File size: 333454 KB
- Release date: January 22, 2015
- Duration: 11:34:32
- Number of parts: 10
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