{"product_id":"frog","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGugu 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One of China''s leading writers . . . his work rings with refreshing authenticity'' Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''His idiom has the spiralling invention of much world literature of a high order, from Vargas Llosa to Rushdie''Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Howard Goldblatt","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56992552190287,"sku":"9780241967324","price":18.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0061\/0372\/8217\/files\/9780241967324_1-frog.jpg?v=1770613359","url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/frog","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}