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Title	:	Frog
Author	:	Mo Yan
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First 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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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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Original Title:	蛙 [Wā]
ISBN:	0525427988 (ISBN13: 9780525427988)
Edition Language:	English

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I grew up under the One-Child Policy. My parents were luckier because the place they were in allowed each Han Chinese family to have two kids. None of my other relatives, close or remote, had any drama due to having a second child. So, before reading this book, I never gave it a second thought what the policy really means. It means some policy implementers, like Gu-Gu in the novel, ruthlessly killed many unborn, even big-monthed, babies; it means that some moms faced great danger or even died

This book made me think of a Chinese opera-bigger than life characters, lots of tragedy and comedy. I could imagine the story onstage with actors in lots of stage makeup and colorful costumes. Now, I've never seen a Chinese opera, only bits and pieces, so my idea might be all wrong, but that's the way it felt to me. It's about the goings-on in a small rural village in China from the post WWII period until the 1980's, and in particular it's the story of the narrator's aunt, an obstetrician who

I read this one in the German edition which came out last year. It was a challenging read both since it lacked an ongoing thrill and the names were a bit confusing for me. However, it was also a very interesting read about China's history starting in times before the cultural revolution. The main focus of the book is the life of a midwife/gynecologist who helps to bring thousands of babies into the world, but also works along with the politics of the one-child rule and ends the lives of as many

This book tells the story of the playwright Tadpole and his great aunt Gugu, a gifted midwife who is charged with the task of enforcing the one-child policy of Communist China in her local community, a task which she takes on with a vengeance. As with other books I have read about China, this book presents a discomforting yet fascinating portrait of an oppressive government whose policies have mandated involuntary abortions and forced sterilizations, and of those who become indoctrinated by that

2.5 Tadpole is our narrator, an aspiring playwright, he is telling the story of his Aunt Gugu. Although she started out as a midwife, she is soon trying to prove her loyalty to the party by strictly enforcing Mao's one child policy. This becomes necessary when her loyalty is questioned and she is arrested after her fiancé, a pilot, defected.Individual responses to the changes in China under Mao, the famine and the one child policy are both horrific to experience. Late term abortions, planting of

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

Frog is the latest novel from contemporary Chinese novelist Mo Yan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012. The novel is presented in five parts, with each prefaced by a letter from our narrator, Wan Zu/Xiaopao/Tadpole, an aspiring playright, to his Japanese mentor. Set in a rural community in the Shangdong province of China, the events he relates spans several decades from 1960 to around 2000. Frog deals largely with the controversial themes of China's one child policy with Tadpole