Frog A Novel

Name: Frog A Novel
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ISBN: 9780525427988

ISBN-10: 0525427988

ISBN-13: 9780525427988

Edition: 2015

Authors: Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt

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The author of Red Sorghum and China’s most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel PrizeIn 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan’s position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new novel, 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…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/22/2015
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Mo Yan was born in 1955 to a peasant family in Shandong. He is the author of Red Sorghum, The Republic of Wine, Shifu, and Youï¿½ll Do Anything for a Laugh. He and his family live in Beijing.