{"product_id":"mo-yan-frog-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. 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'Observer Translated by Howard Goldblatt","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":54571810062678,"sku":"9780241967324-V","price":12.69,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":55228372123990,"sku":"9780241967324-G","price":11.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780241967324_1_a09ff705-1de9-44b7-a847-792c5943c9be.jpg?v=1794536912","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/mo-yan-frog-9780241967324","provider":"momox","version":"1.0","type":"link"}