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Original Title:	蛙 [Wā]
ISBN:	0525427988 (ISBN13: 9780525427988)
Edition Language:	English

Frog Hardcover | Pages: 384 pages

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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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Title	:	Frog
Author	:	Mo Yan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	January 22nd 2015 by Viking (first published 2009)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. China. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asia. Asian Literature. Chinese Literature. Nobel Prize. Novels

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Talk about disappointing. Two years ago, when Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for literature for Frog, Westerners and Chinese were shocked and elated. The Chinese were ecstatic that a Chinese writer won the honor at all (hes the only Chinese writer who lives in China to have ever won the prize) and Westerners were amazed that the book was about the one-child policy and forced abortions. Unfortunately for people who cant read Chinese, that description was a bit of a misnomer. After waiting two years

First, I owe a debt of gratitude to the GoodReads FirstReads program and to the publisher, who kindly provided an advance copy of Frog for early review. I was eager to read a novel by Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize last year. This one, published in 2009, is not new, but is finally being published in the U.S. Frog spotlights a particularly egregious Chinese policy: the controversial and restrictive one-child policy imposed by the Mao regime. Although the scourge of overpopulation was indeed a

In late 1965, the population explosion was a source of considerable pressure on the leadership. As the first family- planning policy in New China peaked, the government proposed: One is good, two is just right, three is too many. Set in Gaomi Township (Yan's birthplace used figuratively in his novels as China coursing through history ), Frog centers on the life story of Gugu, a rural midwife whose modern medical skills surpassed traditional childbirth practices of the countryside, who gained a



Wa wa wa -- the frogs croak.Wah wah wah -- the babies cry.Tadpole is the narrator. He is writing a letter, which does not seem like a letter, to his Japanese mentor. He writes about his aunt, Gugu, who is revered as a midwife. She is old now. Look around though. You and you and you. It is likely you are one of the ten thousand that Gugu delivered. Head first or feet first. Perhaps you reached your hand out instead. Gugu may have humored your parents and cooked up a potion to make sure you were a

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher through the Goodreads First Reads giveaway.I had a difficult time with this book. I'm not really sure why, if it was the massive list of characters that often confused me (although I am thankful for the list in the beginning of the book), the writing (there were no quotation marks in this book. Anywhere. It was so hard to tell when someone stopped talking and the rest of the story continued). Those issues aside, the book wasn't bad. I mean,

I loved Frog. Taken at face value, it recounts a series of dramatic, folkloric incidents among larger-than-life village characters. But it's not meant to be taken at face value. If you can't enjoy a funny anecdote about starving children munching on coal, this book is not for you. If you want a story in which idealism vanquishes cynicism, maybe you shouldn't be reading about the last 60 years of Chinese population control policy.All my knowledge of China comes from reading. Magical realist