MYF00-10 Mo Yan - Frog.nfo
General Information
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Title: Frog: A Novel
Author: Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (translator)
Read By: Graeme Malcolm
Copyright: 2015
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: Digital
Source: Overdrive MP3
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 10
Total Duration: 11:34:32
Total MP3 Size: 318.12
Parity Archive: No
Ripped By: 3j
Encoded With: LAME
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Joint Stereo
Normalize: None
Noise Reduction: None
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial
novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the
Nobel Prize.
In 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 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.
In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families,
illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must
enforce the policy. At once illuminating and devastating, it shines
a light into the heart of communist China.
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