{"product_id":"9780241967324","title":"Frog","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Yan, Mo, Goldblatt, Howard \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/07\/2015,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 400 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780241967324,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGugu 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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'ObserverTranslated by Howard Goldblatt\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697435639852,"sku":"9780241967324","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780241967324.jpg?v=1722594988","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780241967324","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}