{"product_id":"9780241967324-frog","title":"Frog","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrog\u003c\/i\u003e is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of China's leading writers . his work rings with refreshing authenticity' \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'His idiom has the spiralling invention of much world literature of a high order, from Vargas Llosa to Rushdie'\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Howard Goldblatt\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943475785825,"sku":"9780241967324","price":9.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27481029.jpg?v=1721807680","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241967324-frog","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}