by Mo Yan · Hamish Hamilton · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241972366
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«Frog» is the novel by Mo Yan, published by Hamish Hamilton in paperback (387 pages, in English).
Frog follows Gugu, a rural midwife and committed communist, as China implements the one-child policy. Gugu's nephew, a playwright nicknamed Tadpole, wants to write about her. Frog shows the dilemmas of a woman who, to prove her loyalty to the Party, goes so far as to perform abortions on women up to eight months pregnant.
The English edition is translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. The original title of Frog is 蛙 (Wā). Mo Yan received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in the historical and social background of twentieth-century China.
Mo Yan, born Guan Moye, is a Chinese writer. He gained attention for his 1984 novella, A Transparent Radish, and rose to international fame for his 1986 novel Red Sorghum, the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film Red Sorghum (1988). In 2012, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary".
