by Mo Yan · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782021024005
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«Grenouilles» is the novel by Mo Yan, published by Seuil in paperback (416 pages, in French).
The narrator, Têtard, who dreams of being a playwright, writes to a Japanese novelist about his aunt, a celebrated gynecologist devoted to birth control in Mao's China. The portrait of the aunt allows a journey through the history of families and women in a village in Gaomi, from the campaigns of forced abortions to the liberalization of the regime.
French translation of the Chinese original «蛙» (Wā), published in 2009; the Seuil edition came out on August 18, 2011 in the Cadre vert collection. Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.
For readers of contemporary Asian fiction and novels with a historical backdrop.
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".
