Frog
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...
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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.
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- Pages:384 pages
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- Edition:Reprint
- Language:eng
- ISBN10:0525427988
- ISBN13:9780525427988
- kindle Asin:B00KWG9MZQ