{"product_id":"9780241967324","title":"Frog - Mo Yan","description":"\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. Gugu 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. 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 life will be read for generations to come. '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":"Mo Yan","offers":[{"title":"400 pages \/ 02\/07\/2015 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":57107204276599,"sku":"9780241967324","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780241967324_fd6dfc84-2d53-478a-b8fa-e50611515911.jpg?v=1780927112","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780241967324","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}