Obscured text leaf 3 inherent from the sourceĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:43:10 Associated-names Goldblatt, Howard, 1939- translator Boxid IA1885305 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Originally published by Penguin Books, New York, in 2015 (English language) Originally published in Chinese in 2009 by Shanghai Art and Literature Publishing Houseįirst English-language edition published in 2014 by Penguin Group, Australia, in association with Penguin Limited, Beijing, China Original Chinese title: Wa (English form) At once illuminating and devastating, it shines a light into the heart of communist China." 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. 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. But when her lover defects, Gugu's own loyalty to the Party is questioned. In her youth, Gugu-the beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Communist-is revered for her skill as a midwife. Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. 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.
In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize.
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