{"product_id":"frog-mo-yan-9780241967324","title":"Frog","description":"Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.\nGugu 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.\nAfter 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.\nOnce 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.\n'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\n'One of China's leading writers . . . his work rings with refreshing authenticity' Time\n'His idiom has the spiralling invention of much world literature of a high order, from Vargas Llosa to Rushdie'Observer\nTranslated by Howard Goldblatt","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51543934239008,"sku":"9780241967324","price":9.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780241967324.jpg?v=1780774660","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/frog-mo-yan-9780241967324","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}