{"product_id":"frog-paperback","title":"Frog - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMo Yan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHoward Goldblatt\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e TOP BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mo Yan's voice will find it's way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and García Márquez have.\" \u003cb\u003e--Amy Tan author of \u003ci\u003eThe Joy Luck Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Nobel-prize winning author of \u003ci\u003eRed Sorghum\u003c\/i\u003e and one China's most revered writers, a novel exploring the One-Child Policy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator Tadpole's feisty aunt, is a respected midwife in her rural community. She combines modern medical knowledge with a healer's touch to save the lives of village women and their babies. Gugu is beautiful, charismatic, and of an unimpeachable political background. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a disastrous love affair with a defector leaves Gugu reeling, she throws herself zealously into enforcing China's draconian new family planning policy by any means necessary, be it forced sterilizations or late-term abortions. Tragically, her blind devotion to the Party line spares no one, not her own family, not even herself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOnce beloved, Gugu becomes the living incarnation of a reviled social policy violently at odds with deeply rooted social values. Spanning the pre-revolutionary era and the country's modern day consumer society, Mo Yan's taut and engrossing examination of Chinese society will be read for generations to come.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMo Yan\u003c\/b\u003e (literally \"don't speak\") is the pen name of Guan Moye. Born in 1955 to a peasant family in Shandong province, he is the author of ten novels, including\u003ci\u003e Red Sorgum\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a feature film; dozens of novellas; and hundreds of short stories. Mo Yan is the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has won virtually every Chinese literary prize, including the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011 (China's most prestigious literary award), and is the most critically acclaimed Chinese writer of his generation, in both China and around the world. He lives in Beijing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoward Goldblatt\u003c\/b\u003e, widely recognized as one of the best translators from Chinese to English, has received the National Translation Award as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work. He lives in Colorado.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 19, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44337538629734,"sku":"9780143128380","price":40.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/qg913glPeO9780143128380.webp?v=1768528244","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/frog-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}