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The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize. In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipa...
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Penguin Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2015. ©2014 |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English Chinese |
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| Summary: |
The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize. In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. 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. Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. In her youth, Gugu-the beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Communist-is revered for her skill as a midwife. But when her lover defects, Gugu's own loyalty to the Party is questioned. 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. 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. At once illuminating and devastating, it shines a light into the heart of communist China." |
| Item Description: |
Original Chinese title: Wa (English form). Originally published in Chinese in 2009 by Shanghai Art and Literature Publishing House. First English-language edition published in 2014 by Penguin Group, Australia, in association with Penguin Limited, Beijing, China. Originally published by Penguin Books, New York, in 2015 (English language). |
| Carrier Form: | 387 pages ; 24 cm |
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9780241967324 0241967325 9780525427988 0525427988 9780143128380 (paperback) : |
| Index Number: | PL2886 |
| CLC: | I247.57 |
| Call Number: | I247.57/M687-16 |