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Frog (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143128380)
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xA NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR
WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK "Mo Yan's voice will find it's way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and Garc? M疵quez have." --Amy Tan author of The Joy Luck Club
From the Nobel-prize winning author of Red Sorghum and one China's most revered writers, a novel exploring the One-Child Policy
Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator Tadpole's feisty aunt, is a respected midwife in her rural community. She combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. Gugu is beautiful, charismatic, and of an unimpeachable political background. After 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. Once 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 society will be read for generations to come.
Author: Mo Yan
ISBN-10: 0143128388
ISBN-13: 9780143128380
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2016
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/21/2016 pg. 28
WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK "Mo Yan's voice will find it's way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and Garc? M疵quez have." --Amy Tan author of The Joy Luck Club
From the Nobel-prize winning author of Red Sorghum and one China's most revered writers, a novel exploring the One-Child Policy
Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator Tadpole's feisty aunt, is a respected midwife in her rural community. She combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. Gugu is beautiful, charismatic, and of an unimpeachable political background. After 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. Once 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 society will be read for generations to come.
Author: Mo Yan
ISBN-10: 0143128388
ISBN-13: 9780143128380
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2016
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/21/2016 pg. 28
By Mo Yan
xMo Yan (literally "don't speak") is the pen name of Guan Moye. Born in 1955 to a peasant family in Shandong province, he is the author of ten novels, including Red Sorgum, which was made into a feature film; dozens of novellas; and hundreds of short stories. Mo Yan is the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has won virtually every Chinese literary prize, including the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011 (China's most prestigious literary award), and is the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of his generation, in both China and around the world. He lives in Beijing.
Howard Goldblatt, widely recognized as one of the best translators from Chinese to English, has received the National Translation Award as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work. He lives in Colorado.
Howard Goldblatt, widely recognized as one of the best translators from Chinese to English, has received the National Translation Award as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work. He lives in Colorado.
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