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Frog: A Novel - Paperback By Yan, Mo - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9780143128380
- Book Title
- Frog : a Novel
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Literary, Political, Historical
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 12.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK 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.
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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143128388
ISBN-13
9780143128380
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Frog : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Family Life, Literary, Political, Historical
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
12.4 Oz
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Praise for Frog "A rich and troubling epic--and a very human story... hauntingly inventive."-- The New York Times "Mo Yan brings back the hallucinatory realism for which he's known...[Frog is] another display of Mo Yan's attractively daring approach to fiction. The Nobel committee chose wisely."-- The Washington Post "Heavily laced with ardent social criticism, mystical symbolism, and historical realism, Mo Yan's potent exploration of China's most personal and intrusive social control programs probes the horrors and pain such policies inflict."-- Booklist "Harrowing, haunting, poignant... Mo Yan proves himself a novelist of the highest calibre." --Financial Times (UK) "Mo Yan's Frog is a raw, vivid and chaotic story...the novel is a major full-length work with big ideas on a highly sensitive subject...Readers may at times flinch and wish to look away. But regardless of his politics, admirers of Mr. Mo's earlier literary offspring are likely to be equally joyful that he brought this one to term."-- The Wall Street Journal "Goldblatt's translation is inviting, while Yan's tale deftly explores the human toll of national policy and historical forces."-- Publishers Weekly "It's an expansive, fascinating cultural-political history. It skilfully blends high farce with social commentary, domestic drama with deeper themes...Much of the novel is funny, much is sad and moving, and Yan effortlessly moves between the two registers. And you really get a sense of how China and rural Northern Gaomi (Yan's hometown) have changed, almost beyond description, from Maoist times to the current hyper-capitalistic phase."-- Independent (UK) "There is no denying the ease and beauty of his storytelling... this is often difficult subject matter -- but never hard to read."-- West Australian "Frog has that wonderful sense of flipping between the mundane and the fantastic... Both heartbreaking and absurd... a tragicomic tale."-- Adelaide Advertiser, Praise for Frog "A rich and troubling epic--and a very human story... hauntingly inventive."-- The New York Times "Mo Yan brings back the hallucinatory realism for which he's known...[Frog is] another display of Mo Yan's attractively daring approach to fiction. The Nobel committee chose wisely."-- The Washington Post "Heavily laced with ardent social criticism, mystical symbolism, and historical realism, Mo Yan's potent exploration of China's most personal and intrusive social control programs probes the horrors and pain such policies inflict."-- Booklist "Harrowing, haunting, poignant... Mo Yan proves himself a novelist of the highest calibre." --Financial Times (UK) "Mo Yan's Frog is a raw, vivid and chaotic story...the novel is a major full-length work with big ideas on a highly sensitive subject...Readers may at times flinch and wish to look away. But regardless of his politics, admirers of Mr. Mo's earlier literary offspring are likely to be equally joyful that he brought this one to term."-- The Wall Street Journal "Goldblatt's translation is inviting, while Yan's tale deftly explores the human toll of national policy and historical forces."-- Publishers Weekly "It's an expansive, fascinating cultural-political history. It skilfully blends high farce with social commentary, domestic drama with deeper themes...Much of the novel is funny, much is sad and moving, and Yan effortlessly moves between the two registers. And you really get a sense of how China and rural Northern Gaomi (Yan's hometown) have changed, almost beyond description, from Maoist times to the current hyper-capitalistic phase."-- Independent (UK) "There is no denying the ease and beauty of his storytelling... this is often difficult subject matter -- but never hard to read."-- West Australian "Frog has that wonderful sense of flipping between the mundane and the fantastic... Both heartbreaking and absurd... a tragicomic tale."-- Adelaide Advertiser From the Hardcover edition.
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